Søren Kierkegaard Quotes

“It is human to lament, human to weep with them that weep, but it is greater to believe, more blessed to contemplate the believer.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:belief

“He writes because for him it is a luxury which becomes the more agreeable and more evident, the fewer there are who buy and read what he writes.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:writing pleasure

“Faith is the highest passion in a man. There are perhaps many in every generation who do not even reach it, but no one gets further.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:passion faith

“What our age lacks, however, is not reflection but passion.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:passion thought

“Faith is a miracle, and yet no man is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is unified is passion, and faith is a passion.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:passion faith

“Every movement of infinity comes about by passion, and no reflection can bring a movement about.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:passion

“If you marry, you will regret it; if you do not marry, you will also regret it; if you marry or if you do not marry, you will regret both; whether you marry or you do not marry, you will regret both.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

“this is one of the most decisive definitions for all Christianity—that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

topic:virtue sin faith

“Or what is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:youth age existence

“For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do, and there is surely no one who thinks that a man became great because he won the great prize in the lottery.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:action greatness

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