Soren Kierkegaard
21 quotations
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Once you label me you negate me.
What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Be that self which one truly is.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.