Søren Kierkegaard

Quotes

• “And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and it...”
• “Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was...”
• “Sitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has sprung a leak, then e...”
• “Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has ind...”
• “The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal...”
• “The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of m...”
• “The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength,...”
• “Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in everygeneration may not come that far, but none comes further.”
• “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
• “What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.”
• “For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought”
• “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
• “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
• “la vida sólo puede ser entendida mirando hacia atrás; aunque deba ser vivida mirando hacia adelante”
• “No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.”
• “Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!”
• “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”