Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
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 Aabye Kierkegaard
Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
How absurd men are! they never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
In the white house, you can be on the pitcher’s mound or you can be in the catcher’s position. — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
What is a poet? an unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds — Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
