Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Soren Kierkegaard
Danish Philosopher
Born: May 5, 1813
Died: Nov 11, 1855
God Great Life Man Only Will
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard
Life Backwards Must Only Understood Lived
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. Soren Kierkegaard
God Prayer Change Changes Him Does Prays Who
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. Soren Kierkegaard
Life Thoughts Result Our Always Dominant Expresses
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard
Life Reality Problem Solved Experienced
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
Lose Dare Oneself Footing
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. Soren Kierkegaard
Rule Tyrant Martyr Over His Begins Dies
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. Soren Kierkegaard
Love Love Is Gives Takes
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
Beautiful Music Heart Unhappy Poet Cries Sighs Anguish Poetry Over Beautiful Music Like Pass Sound His Person Lips Formed Them Who Whose Profound
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
You Regret Will Advice Possible See Both Perfectly Opinion Friendly Situations Either Two Honest
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. Soren Kierkegaard
God Nature Prayer Change Rather Prays Influence Who Function
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. Soren Kierkegaard
Patience Reap Immediately Sown Where Cannot Necessary
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 You Wonderful Nothing Say Out More He Sure Makes Does Still Saints Sinners Yes Creates
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 Most Beautiful Will Seen About Highest Most Beautiful Things Read Nor Heard Lived Things
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
Me Man Struggle Woman Giving Birth Extremity Tell Something Could Thus Hour Look Cry His Labor Begins Intended Listen Ends Dying Whether Then Enjoyment Last
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. Soren Kierkegaard
Life Great Thoughts Nothing Else Paradox Paradoxes Embryo Only Great Souls Call Souls Passions Intellectual Intellectual Life Than Pathos Just Which Grandiose Really Who Exposed Thinker
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. Soren Kierkegaard
Me People Understanding Complaint About Understand Them Poorly Even
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
World Evil Backwards Beginning Back Bored Boredom No Wonder Advances Since Spreads Were Very Wonder Gods Goes Human Human Beings Then Root Created Therefore Beings
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. Soren Kierkegaard
Love Alter Does Itself Beloved
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 Man Thinking Finally Lies Physical Outside Toward Inward Him Within Always His Source Discovers Being Happiness Lies Turned Turns Who
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. Soren Kierkegaard
Life Love God Prayer Long Other Earthly Able Mystic He Blend Longs Souls Were Just Lovers Breathe Forth Whisper Moment Each Creep Soft
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
Evil Despairing Boredom Oneself Refusal Root
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. Soren Kierkegaard
Travel Animal People World Seen Fall Mountains Stars Think Birds Freak See Something Rivers Over New Fish Existence Human Commonly Breeds Grotesque
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
Freedom Thought Men Freedom Of Speech Those Liberties Never Absurd Demand How Use Speech
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. Soren Kierkegaard
Man Nothing Every He Know Becoming How Doing Getting Afraid Which Capable Much Every Man
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. Soren Kierkegaard
Truth Man Personality Made Own Ripe Only His
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. Soren Kierkegaard
Truth You Truth Is Way Only Catch Without Caught Snare Being Cannot Such A Way
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