Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.
In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He only sees each individual
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.
. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.
Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.
Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.
Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.
...the person who surrenders absolutely to God, with no reservations, is absolutely safe. From this safe hiding-place he can see the devil , but the devil cannot see him.
Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.
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.
It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.
If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.
Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.
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.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
