Soren Kierkegaard Quotes - Page 20

Quotes about:

• I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Way

  "The Point of View of My Work as an Author". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1848, 1851, 1859.

  5 Copy quote

• To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Lost, Terrible, Terrible Things

  5 Copy quote

• When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful!

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Doors, Order, Community

  5 Copy quote

• The meaning lies in the appropriation.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Lying, Appropriation

  "Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1845.

  5 Copy quote

• It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when he denies himself and, because the world precisely for this shuts itself up to him, he must as one thrust out by the world seek God's confidence. The double-danger lies precisely in meeting opposition there where he had expected to find support, and he has to turn about twice; whereas the merely human self-resignation turns once.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Lying, Men

  "Works of Love". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, 1847.

  6 Copy quote

• Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Wine, Pleasure, Possibility

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

  10 Copy quote

• For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Egypt, Fields

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

• Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christianity, Theologian

  6 Copy quote

• There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Interesting, Most Interesting

  5 Copy quote

• Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Creativity, Backwards, Understood

  5 Copy quote

• Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Philosophical, Risk, Leap Of Faith

  8 Copy quote

• At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Clever, Fighting, Ideas

  8 Copy quote

• A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Beautiful, Heart, Men

  6 Copy quote

• Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Way, Synthesis, Spirit

  "The Concept of Anxiety". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 85, Soren Kierkegaard.

  8 Copy quote

• No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Taken, Mean, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Tasks, Analogies

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

  5 Copy quote

• Most people believe that the Christian commandments, e.g. to love one's neighbor as oneself, are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Morning, Believe

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  8 Copy quote

• In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Horse, Children, Hobbies

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

  5 Copy quote

• And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Work, Writing, Order

  5 Copy quote

• To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Teacher, Mean, Lectures

  "The Point of View of My Work as an Author". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1848.

  5 Copy quote

Page 20 of 20

First

← Prev

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin