Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
What kind of power is it that dares intrude between me and my bride, the bride I myself have chosen and who has chosen me And this power would command her to be true to me does she then need to be so commanded And is she to be true to me only because a third party commands it, one whom she therefore loves more than me - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Once you label me you negate me. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Honour him, dear Symparanekromenoi, for his grey hair and his misfortune. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful he makes saints out of sinners. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is quite true what Philosophy says that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position. - Soren Kierkegaard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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