Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

Experience, Life, Lived

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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Living, Forces

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Thoughts, Result

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Reality, Problem

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard

Religion, Change, God

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard

Freedom, Thought, Speech

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Soren Kierkegaard

Understand, Complaint, Poorly

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Soren Kierkegaard

God, Nothing, Wonderful

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard

Friendly, Regret, Two

Don't forget to love yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard

Love, Yourself, Forget

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard

Music, Beautiful, Heart

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

Life, Beautiful, Read

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard

Happiness, Thinking, Him

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard

Evil, Boredom, Oneself

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard

Lose, Dare, Oneself

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Soren Kierkegaard

Men, Freedom, Thought

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

Face, Facts, Changes

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard

Evil, Human, Bored

Once you label me you negate me.
Soren Kierkegaard

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Soren Kierkegaard

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Soren Kierkegaard

Faith, Human, Passion

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
Soren Kierkegaard

Struggle, Woman, Giving

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Soren Kierkegaard

Rule, Begins, Martyr

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Soren Kierkegaard

Freedom, Anxiety

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
Soren Kierkegaard

God, Cannot, Capable

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 5, 1813

Died: November 11, 1855

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