Authors:

Soren Kierkegaard Quotes - Page 2

All Quotes Adversity Age Anxiety Art Atheism Authority Belief Boredom Certainty Children Choices Christ Christianity Courage Crime Death Deception Desire Devil Difficulty Doubt Duty Eternity Evil Existentialism Faith Feelings Fighting Genius Giving God Happiness Heart Heaven Hope Ignorance Individuality Inspiration Inspirational Irony Joy Judging Justice Knowledge Language Liberty Life Loss Love Lying Mediocrity Pain Passion Past Personality Philosophy Pleasure Positive Praise Prayer Pride Reality Reflection Religion Risk Silence Sin Sleep Sorrow Soul Spring Struggle Success Suffering Temptation Time Truth Understanding Wine Winning Wisdom
The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

Soren Kierkegaard
Believe, People, Investing

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.

Soren Kierkegaard
Beautiful, Life Lesson, Things In Life

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

Soren Kierkegaard
Life, Loneliness, Simple

The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.

Soren Kierkegaard
Stronger, Majority, Minorities
"The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard" by Soren Kierkegaard, pt. 5, sct. 3, no 128, 1850.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

Soren Kierkegaard
Risk, Greater

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Prayer, Men

God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing

Soren Kierkegaard
Use, Firsts

Confidence is the present tense of hope.

Soren Kierkegaard
Tense, Present Tense

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

Soren Kierkegaard
Silence, World, Modern

In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

Soren Kierkegaard
Thinking, Fire, Theatre

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

Soren Kierkegaard
Remember, Painful, States

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Soren Kierkegaard
Life Is Good, Bad Ass, Expression

Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see

Soren Kierkegaard
Love, Truth, Thinking

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

Soren Kierkegaard
Understanding, Duty, Humans
The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1847.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness, Fear, Creativity
Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay (2014). “The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin”, p.75, W. W. Norton & Company

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

Soren Kierkegaard
Confusing, Strange, Complicated

The door to happiness opens outward.

Soren Kierkegaard
Doors

The thing that cowardice fears most is decision

Soren Kierkegaard
Decision, Cowardice

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Soren Kierkegaard
Change, Expression, Being Sad

Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.

Soren Kierkegaard
Air, Wind, People
"Papers and Journals".

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

Soren Kierkegaard
Eye, Self, Disbelievers

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

Soren Kierkegaard
People, Misunderstood

The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!

Soren Kierkegaard
News, World, Christ

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

Soren Kierkegaard
World, Enough, Born

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

Soren Kierkegaard
Truth Is, Traps

You May Also Like: