54 result(s) for Soren Kierkegaard Quotes.
"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."
"Don’t forget to love yourself."
"The highest form of despair is to want to be who you are not."
"If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe; but precisely because I cannot do this, I must believe."
"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
"To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness."
"If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it; if you marry or do not marry, you will regret both."
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"Faith is the highest passion in a human being."
"The function of anxiety is to show us what we are unwilling to see."
"To be loved is indeed a strength. To love; however, is a further strength."
"The unhappy person is never present to the moment but always goes further and further away from himself."
"It is only individuals who can love. Indirectly however, we all choose to use authority to escape the necessity of loving."
"When you label me, you negate me."
"Once you label me you negate me."
"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, from the fact that it has to be formed of those who have no opinion."
"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
"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 greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all."
"It is always in one's power to say to oneself: I will endure, I will not lose heart."
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
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"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of what can be, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible."
"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."
"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
"It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey."
"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 criticism should be to show that things are not so and that they are not so bad."
"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."
"Truth has no subject, it is the subject."
"To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, no remedy, no excuse."
"Don't forget to love yourself."
"What the age needs is not a genius - it has had geniuses enough, but a martyr, who in order to teach men to obey would himself be obedient unto death."
"The unhappy person is never present to the moment, only to the past or future."
"The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have."
"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more-memory a man has, the more he is chained to the person he used to be."
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"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
"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."
"Purity of heart is to will one thing."
"To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity."
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself."
"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."
"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself."
"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."
"Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both."
"It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backward. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards."
"People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood."
"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."
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