Soren Kierkegaard Quotes - Page 2

Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out of something by making them think it is nothing.

For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought

No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

Only the one who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contradiction to all that is 'to a certain degree'.

Hope is passion for what is possible.

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music. People corwd around the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself.

Is it not possible that my activity as an objective observer of nature will weaken my strength as a human being?

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

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.