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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
— Soren Kierkegaard
It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
— Soren Kierkegaard
It is in your power to review your life, to look at things you saw before, but from another point of view
— Soren Kierkegaard
The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.
— Soren Kierkegaard
No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual ...
— Soren Kierkegaard
I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.
— Soren Kierkegaard
To believe is indeed to lose the understanding in order to gain God.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Once you label me you negate me.
— Soren Kierkegaard
.....love yourself.
— Soren Kierkegaard
There can be no faith without risk.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Where there are two people, there is untruth.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
— Soren Kierkegaard
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.
— Soren Kierkegaard
A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way. — Soren Kierkegaard
On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.
— Soren Kierkegaard
My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
— Soren Kierkegaard
A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The Highest, after all, is not to comprehend the Highest, but to do it.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
— Soren Kierkegaard
There is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.
— Soren Kierkegaard
My soul is like the dead sea, over which no bird can fly; when it gets halfway, it sinks down spent to its death and destruction.
— Soren Kierkegaard
All comparisons injure.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I am a fork, and I will stick you!
— Soren Kierkegaard
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Confidence is the present tense of hope.
— Soren Kierkegaard
For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
— Soren Kierkegaard
In the first case, he personally enjoyed the esthetic; in the second case, he esthetically enjoyed his personality.
— Soren Kierkegaard
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.
— Soren Kierkegaard
To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.
— Soren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
— Soren Kierkegaard
This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.
— Soren Kierkegaard
One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
— Soren Kierkegaard
People say the good Lord fills the stomach before the eyes. I haven't noticed; my eyes have had enough and I am weary of everything, and yet I hunger.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Only the one who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved.
— Soren Kierkegaard
To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
— Vernon Howard
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.
— Soren Kierkegaard
This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Don't forget to love yourself.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
— Soren Kierkegaard
If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.
— Soren Kierkegaard
A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.
— Soren Kierkegaard
For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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
— Soren Kierkegaard
I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?
— Soren Kierkegaard
I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Faith is namely this paradox that the single individual is higher than the universal
— Soren Kierkegaard
To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I must find a truth that is true for me.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The girl made an impression on me, and I forgot her; the other made no impression, and her I can remember.
— Soren Kierkegaard
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
— Soren Kierkegaard
I choose one thing: always to have the laughter on my side.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The door to happiness opens outward.
— Soren Kierkegaard
It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.
— Soren Kierkegaard
For faith is this paradox, that the particular is higher than the universal
— Soren Kierkegaard
If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.
— Soren Kierkegaard
All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.
— Soren Kierkegaard
There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
— Soren Kierkegaard
Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
— Soren Kierkegaard
All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Seducing a girl is no art, but it needs a stroke of good fortune to find one worth seducing.
— Soren Kierkegaard
For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do.
— Soren Kierkegaard
People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
— Soren Kierkegaard
In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He only sees each individual
— Soren Kierkegaard
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
— Soren Kierkegaard
if god loves me, he is my mortal enemy
— Soren Kierkegaard
The philistine tranquillises himself with the trivial.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
— Soren Kierkegaard
To dare is to momentarily lose one's footing. But not to dare is to lose one's self. — Soren Kierkegaard
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in everygeneration may not come that far, but none comes further. — Soren Kierkegaard
It is unbelievable what a person of prayer can achieve if he would but close the doors behind him.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I need the enchantment of creative work to help me forget life's mean pettinesses.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
— Soren Kierkegaard
No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask ...
— Soren Kierkegaard
For our times are not satisfied with faith and not even with the miracle of changing water into wine - they 'go right on,' changing wine into water.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
— Soren Kierkegaard
To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.
— Soren Kierkegaard
No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.
— Soren Kierkegaard
People do not know what they ought to say but only that they must say something.
— Soren Kierkegaard
