It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhat labels me, negates me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDFor he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
SOREN KIERKEGAARDLife is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDOnce you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDPeople understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTherefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIn my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDLeap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
SOREN KIERKEGAARDAnd this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIn the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIf 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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTo have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhat if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
SOREN KIERKEGAARD