The God that can be named is not God. Soren Kierkegaard More Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard More Quotes From Soren Kierkegaard Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. Soren Kierkegaard reapbe-patientpatience It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have. Soren Kierkegaard ableblessedgiving Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate. Soren Kierkegaard right-wayanxiousway If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Soren Kierkegaard outcomesjudgingaction . . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth. Soren Kierkegaard crowdstruthpraise Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions. Soren Kierkegaard menlyingworld My standpoint is armed neutrality. Soren Kierkegaard standpointneutrality I must find a truth that is true for me. Soren Kierkegaard successhappiness What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is. Soren Kierkegaard misfortunesworst I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing. Soren Kierkegaard fingerssmellsticks Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself. Soren Kierkegaard earnestnessobservers A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke. Soren Kierkegaard firebelievethinking A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical. Soren Kierkegaard racetruthage No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it. Soren Kierkegaard suspectsdeceiveddoe Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself. Soren Kierkegaard selfmentwo Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make. Soren Kierkegaard discernmentacquaintancedangerous Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. Soren Kierkegaard agebirthdayideas O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform. Soren Kierkegaard reformmatterdoe Hope is a passion for the possible. Soren Kierkegaard passion There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do. Soren Kierkegaard religiouschristianopposites
