Soren Kierkegaard quotes was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author Born: 05/05/1813 Died: 11/11/1855 Country: denmark

• Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation. (Soren Kierkegaard) [suicide/suicide/life]
• Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances. (Soren Kierkegaard) [death/light/bad]
• In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love. (Soren Kierkegaard) [more/depression/wonder/love]
• Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself. (Soren Kierkegaard) [boredom]
• It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important (Soren Kierkegaard)
• 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) [boredom/boredom/evil/wonder]
• 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. (Soren Kierkegaard) [men/willpower]
• Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes -- we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual. (Soren Kierkegaard) [human/changes/eyes/god]
• It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. (Soren Kierkegaard) [human/desire]
• Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. (Soren Kierkegaard) [idleness/being/evil]
• People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. (Soren Kierkegaard) [people/demand/speech]
• 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) [absurd/men/demand/demand]
• 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)
• 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/pleasure/human/being]
• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. (Soren Kierkegaard) [life/problem/reality]
• Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude. (Soren Kierkegaard) [irony/irony/absolute/life]
• 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) [paradox/life/thinker/thoughts]
• The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering. (Soren Kierkegaard) [difference/death/search/martyrdom]
• This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die. (Soren Kierkegaard) [human/life/question/immortality]
• It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position. (Soren Kierkegaard) [philosophy/life/forget/more]
• Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. (Soren Kierkegaard) [life]
• Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards. (Soren Kierkegaard) [life]
• Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. (Soren Kierkegaard) [life]
• What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion. (Soren Kierkegaard) [age/pleasure]
• 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/moment/love/mystic]
• The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed. (Soren Kierkegaard) [present/generation/condition/morning]
• Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. (Soren Kierkegaard) [marriage/connection/tradition/customs]
• 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 wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. (Soren Kierkegaard) [/age/sale/start]
• 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. (Soren Kierkegaard) [time/childhood]
• The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes. (Soren Kierkegaard) [more/forget/life/more]
• 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) [people/human/think]

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