What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is. Soren Kierkegaard More Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard More Quotes From Soren Kierkegaard God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing Soren Kierkegaard usefirsts The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live. Soren Kierkegaard shouldloveneeds In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke. Soren Kierkegaard theatrefirethinking To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard couragesuccesslife The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires. Soren Kierkegaard sacrificegiving-upsong I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world. Soren Kierkegaard soulbelieveworld On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart Soren Kierkegaard cheeksblushingheart I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood. Soren Kierkegaard misunderstoodpeople The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man. Soren Kierkegaard religiousspiritualmen Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard happinesslovelife If you think you understand, it isn't God. Soren Kierkegaard ifsthinking The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control. Soren Kierkegaard governmentchoicesevil to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God. Soren Kierkegaard have-faithmindwinning Confidence is the present tense of hope. Soren Kierkegaard present-tensetense The Bible is God's love letter to us Soren Kierkegaard love-lettergods-loveletters Hope is passion for what is possible. Soren Kierkegaard passionhope Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. Soren Kierkegaard creativityfearhappiness Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. Soren Kierkegaard being-sadchangeexpression Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others. Soren Kierkegaard taskssometimespeople Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it. Soren Kierkegaard strugglechristiandream
