Quotes of Søren Kierkegaard - somelinesforyou

“ Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Hope is a passion for the possible. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Hope is passion for what is possible. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Hope is a passion for the possible. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self… And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ The most common form of despair is not being who you are. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard

“ Hope is a passion for the possible. ”

- Søren Kierkegaard
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