Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Biography: Søren Kierkegaard is known as the father of existentialism. A Danish ... more Biography: Søren Kierkegaard is known as the father of existentialism. A Danish philosopher and theologian, he critiqued Hegelianism, advocated for individual faith, and examined subjective experience. His works, like "Either/Or" and "Fear and Trembling," profoundly influenced philosophy, theology, and literature. less

"It is impossible to exist without passion.""Only the one who doubts can truly believe.""To understand oneself is the greatest challenge.""To dare is to momentarily lose one's footing.""Our life is a journey, and by bringing us closer to death, it returns us to our being.""People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.""Faith is the highest passion in a human being.""The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.""I must find a truth that is true for me.""Boredom is the root of all evil the despairing refusal to be oneself""The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die""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""When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, It is talking to me and about me""To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.""There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.""People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.""To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.""Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when everyone has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always allow itself to be trifled with?""Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.""Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all."

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