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Soren Kierkegaard

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

-Soren Kierkegaard

age

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

age

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

-Soren Kierkegaard

change

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

-Soren Kierkegaard

change

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

-Soren Kierkegaard

dating

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.

-Soren Kierkegaard

death

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.

-Soren Kierkegaard

death

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

-Soren Kierkegaard

dreams

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

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experience

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

-Soren Kierkegaard

faith

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

-Soren Kierkegaard

freedom

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

-Soren Kierkegaard

freedom

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

-Soren Kierkegaard

freedom

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

god

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

-Soren Kierkegaard

god

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

-Soren Kierkegaard

god

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

-Soren Kierkegaard

god

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

-Soren Kierkegaard

god

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

-Soren Kierkegaard

good

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.

-Soren Kierkegaard

good

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

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great

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

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great

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

-Soren Kierkegaard

great

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.

-Soren Kierkegaard

great

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

happiness

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

-Soren Kierkegaard

life

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

-Soren Kierkegaard

life

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

-Soren Kierkegaard

life

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

-Soren Kierkegaard

life

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

-Soren Kierkegaard

life

Don't forget to love yourself.

-Soren Kierkegaard

love

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

-Soren Kierkegaard

love

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

-Soren Kierkegaard

love

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

-Soren Kierkegaard

marriage

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Soren Kierkegaard

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

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.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

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.

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.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

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.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

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.

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.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

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