Søren Aabye Kierkegaard Quotes

• Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Fear, Life

  Tags in Freedom, Anxiety
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  There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to accept what is true.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Blindness, Fools

• How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Absurd, Freedom

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

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in God, Influence

  Tags in Faith

• The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Dies, Rule, Martyrdom

• Don’t forget to love yourself.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Love, Wisdom

  Tags in Forget

• Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Evil, Idleness

• Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth – look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Labor, Woman

• Where am I? Who am I?
  How did I come to be here?
  What is this thing called the world?
  How did I come into the world?
  Why was I not consulted?
  And If I am compelled to take part in it,
  Where is the director?
  I want to see him.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Purpose

• I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Feel

• I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations – one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it – you will regret both.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Advice, Life
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  Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Life, Memory

  Tags in Now, Forwards

• At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lies, Strangers

• Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Evil, Boredom

• A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man

• Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Concepts

• Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Death

• During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Life

• Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Facts

• Be that self which one truly is.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (61)

Birth:	5th May, 1813
Death:	11th November, 1855
Nationality:	Danish
Profession:	Novelist, Philosopher, Theologian, Writer

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