Kierkegaard Quotes
Life must be understood backwards; but… it must be lived forward. – Soren Kierkegaard
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. – Soren Kierkegaard
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. – Soren Kierkegaard
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world. – Soren Kierkegaard
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. – Soren Kierkegaard
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. – Soren Kierkegaard
What labels me negates me. – Soren Kierkegaard
Don’t forget to love yourself. – Soren Kierkegaard
Not to dare is to lose oneself. – Soren Kierkegaard
The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming. – Soren Kierkegaard
The greatest danger, that of losing oneself, can pass off in the world as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, etc. is bound to be noticed. – Soren Kierkegaard
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have. – Soren Kierkegaard
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. – Soren Kierkegaard
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. – Soren Kierkegaard
What is youth? A dream. What is love? The content of the dream. – Soren Kierkegaard
The most common form of despair is not being who you are. – Soren Kierkegaard
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. – Soren Kierkegaard
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have. – Soren Kierkegaard
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. – Soren Kierkegaard
What is youth? A dream. What is love? The content of the dream. – Soren Kierkegaard
The most common form of despair is not being who you are. – Soren Kierkegaard
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. – Soren Kierkegaard
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have. – Soren Kierkegaard
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. – Soren Kierkegaard
What is youth? A dream. What is love? The content of the dream. – Soren Kierkegaard
The most common form of despair is not being who you are. – Soren Kierkegaard
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life. – Soren Kierkegaard
Once you label me you negate me. – Soren Kierkegaard
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. – Soren Kierkegaard
To be human is to have a choice. – Soren Kierkegaard
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. – Soren Kierkegaard
The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and convictionthat goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist. – Soren Kierkegaard
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. – Soren Kierkegaard
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. – Soren Kierkegaard
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. – Soren Kierkegaard
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have knownno wonder, then, that I return the love. – Soren Kierkegaard
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. – Soren Kierkegaard
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever. – Soren Kierkegaard
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. – Soren Kierkegaard
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. – Soren Kierkegaard
Don’t forget to love yourself. – Soren Kierkegaard
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. – Soren Kierkegaard
Action can only be understood and represented by the opposite of the Hegelian principle. – Soren Kierkegaard
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on the way. – Soren Kierkegaard
They are given over to as philosophers and scholars often are, to putting everything in question. – Soren Kierkegaard
I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful; when it is absent, I long and yearn… My thought does not clasp a theoretic principle, but my thought is my love, my longing, my yearning, my sighing, my singing, my prayer. – Soren Kierkegaard
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. is sure to be noticed. – Soren Kierkegaard
When you label me, you negate me. – Soren Kierkegaard
At the bottom of winning and losing there is a secret law of prize giving. Only with a capacity to lose can one win. – Soren Kierkegaard
When you label me, you negate me. – Soren Kierkegaard