Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• Hope is passion for what is possible.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Hope, Passion

• Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Art, Passion, Winning

• Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those who mock at or oppose you, for they do you good; crucify your self-love and acknowledge the wrong, the error of your heart. But have the deepest pity for those who mock at words and works of faith and piety, of righteousness; for those who oppose the good which you are doing... God preserve you - getting exasperated at them.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Passion, Heart

• One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion, Thinking, Feelings

• It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion, Lost, Loses

• Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Powerful, Passion

• Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Attitude, Passion, Character

• It is impossible to exist without passion

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion, Impossible

• If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion, Dark, Men

  Soren Kierkegaard (2005). “Fear and Trembling”, p.18, Penguin UK

• 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, Passion, Soul

• Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion. Every one knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is willing to move.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Moving, Passion, Average

• Faith is the highest passion in a man.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion, Men, Highest

  "Fear and Trembling". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Epilogue, 1843.

• 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, Passion, Light

  "The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard" edited and translated by Alexander Dru, 1959.

• Hope is a passion for the possible.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion

• Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion, Reflection, Understanding

• This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion, Evil, Age

• The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Clever, Rip, Passion

• Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Party, Passion, Third Parties

• The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion, Thinking, Conclusion

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Fear and Trembling”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

• Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion, Life Is, Human Life

• What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion, Reflection, Age

• Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Book, Reading, Passion

  "Stages on Life's Way". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 363-364, 1845.

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