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Soren Kierkegaard - From the Advice category:
One can advise comfortably from a safe port. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Anxiety category:
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Authority category:
How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Boredom category:
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Change category:
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Commerce category:
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Complaining category:
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Danger category:
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Depression category:
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Desperation category:
The most common form of despair is not being who you are. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Difficulty category:
When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Education category:
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Experience category:
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Faith category:
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Fear category:
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Freedom category:
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Frustration category:
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Happiness category:
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Ideas category:
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Indolence category:
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Journey category:
That is the road we all have to take – over the Bridge of Sight into eternity. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Life category:
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Life category:
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Love category:
Don't forget to love yourself. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Opposites category:
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Patience category:
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Pleasure category:
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Poetry category:
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)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Prayer category:
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Problems category:
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Questions category:
Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Religion category:
God created the world out of nothing, but the nothingness still shows through. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Repetition category:
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Risk category:
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Thinking category:
The paradox is the source of the thinker's passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Thought category:
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. (Soren Kierkegaard)
Soren Kierkegaard - From the Truth category:
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you. (Soren Kierkegaard)
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