Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
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.
People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
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.
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without but was within him all the time.
