Kierkegaard Quotes
The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.
The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.
O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
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.
The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.
All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.
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.
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.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.
It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.
Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
