Quotes
Quotes - Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste they hurry past it.
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.
Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
Once you label me you negate me.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
Don't forget to love yourself. -Soren Kierkegaard.
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.".
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
