“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
Life
“Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.”
TimeAll Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
Change“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Freedom“If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.”
God“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.”
Truth“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Life“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
Freedom“Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.”
Time“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“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.”
Life“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.”
Great“Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.”
Marriage“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.”
Age“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“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“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
Life“Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.”
Love“Don't forget to love yourself.”
Love“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.”
Dating