Soren Kierkegaard

Soren Kierkegaard

Danish philosopher, 1813-1885




Don't forget to love yourself.




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




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




If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.




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



To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.



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.




Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.




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




Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.



Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.




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.




Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.



Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.




Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.




People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought...which they avoid.




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




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.




To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.




During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.


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cool dude.