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Søren Kierkegaard

1813-1855 ,  Danish philosopher
Søren KierkegaardDanish Christian philosopher and theologian, considered to be a founder of Existentialist thought and Absurdist traditions. He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christendom, morality, ethics, psychology and philosophy of religion.

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I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Faith is the highest passion in a man.

It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion.

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.

I'm so misunderstood, that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

Once you label me you negate me.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

Confidence is the present tense of hope.

Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes –but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

The door to happiness opens outward.

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.

A “no” does not hide anything, but a “yes” very easily becomes a deception.

I have needed God every day to defend myself against the abundance of thoughts.

The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

If the genius is an artist, then he accomplishes his work as art, but neither he nor his work of art has a telos outside him.

Freedom’s possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

The world is rejuvenated, but as Heine so wittily remarked, it was rejuvenated by romanticism to such a degree that it became a baby again.

The similarity between Christ and Socrates consists essentially in their dissimilarity. Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony.

Job endured everything — until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

The question is not “To be or not to be,” it is what we should be until we are not.

The thing that cowardice fears most is decision.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

If you think you understand it, it isn't God.

Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask…

The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard – Christ is risen!

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

All the shrewdness of “man” seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

The Bible is God's love letter to us.

Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment. Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow.

The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.

Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

Where there are two people, there is untruth.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.


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