The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying. Soren Kierkegaard More Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard More Quotes From Soren Kierkegaard Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life. Soren Kierkegaard repetition life reality No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual. Soren Kierkegaard pride may thinking The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself. Soren Kierkegaard scholarly immortality conscious The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone. Soren Kierkegaard men believe ideas 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 heart beautiful men For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child. Soren Kierkegaard deceit sadness children To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self. Soren Kierkegaard motivational adventure life If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd. Soren Kierkegaard herds want running If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is high time that I take advantage of this and promptly begin with the quadrille--people would presumably laugh a little at him, but in the world of spirit this is very plausible. What, then, is education? I believed it is the course the individual goes through in order to catch up with himself, and the person who will not go through this course is not much helped by being born in the most enlightened age. Soren Kierkegaard laughing order people Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited. Soren Kierkegaard synthesis spirit way Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair. Soren Kierkegaard secured despair duty It is very important in life to know when your cue comes. Soren Kierkegaard important knows This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion. Soren Kierkegaard passion age evil It is impossible to exist without passion Soren Kierkegaard passion impossible My sorrow is my castle. Soren Kierkegaard castles sorrow 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. Soren Kierkegaard fighting pride men I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Soren Kierkegaard confidant silence night ...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present? Soren Kierkegaard made remember past 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 One can advise comfortably from a safe port. Soren Kierkegaard port safety advice
