Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

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, End, Everything

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Soren Kierkegaard

Truth, Made, Ripe

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, Great, Death

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

Life, Great, Nothing

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Soren Kierkegaard

Between, Lies, Strangers

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

Life, Death, Die

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, Weather, Wind

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 5, 1813

Died: November 11, 1855

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