Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Be that self which one truly is.
Soren Kierkegaard

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

Life, Greatest, Risk

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

Change, Nature, God

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Soren Kierkegaard

Love, Beloved, Alter

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

Men, Past, Pleasure

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

Life, Love, God

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
Soren Kierkegaard

Travel, Human, Stars

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing, Afraid, Getting

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

Good, True, Evil

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Soren Kierkegaard

Human, Everything, Through

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

Dating, Important, Seems

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
Soren Kierkegaard

Heart, Long, Die

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.
Soren Kierkegaard

Great, Men, Himself

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Soren Kierkegaard

Patience, Cannot, Reap

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Soren Kierkegaard

She, Quarrel, Admit

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.
Soren Kierkegaard

Truth, Cannot, Catch

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Soren Kierkegaard

Teacher, Away, Paradox

Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Soren Kierkegaard

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.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Forget, Remember

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

Love, Takes, Gives

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, Age, Old

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 Kierkegaard

Game, Cannot, Says

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

Great, Living, Trouble

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
Soren Kierkegaard

Time, Through, Childhood

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
Soren Kierkegaard

Safe, Advise, Port

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 5, 1813

Died: November 11, 1855

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