“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.”
Death
“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.”
LifeAll Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
“If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.”
God“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”
Truth“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Experience“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
Freedom“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.”
Music“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.”
God“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”
Men“Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.”
Marriage“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.”
Good“I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.”
Great“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.”
Happiness“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.”
Death“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.”
Teacher“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
Change“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
Life“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Freedom“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.”
Age“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.”
Faith“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.”
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