755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

La mala conciencia, sin embargo, puede hacer interesante la existencia…

<...> tikėjimą turėti - pavydėtina dalia, net jei niekas apie tai nežinotų. (7-8)

kai Dievas savo visagaliu apsisprendimu <...>, kuris yra tarsi jo meilė, nori būti lygus pačiam menkiausiam, tai nei smuklės šeimininkas, nei filosofijos profesorius lai neįsikala į galvą, kad jie tokie gudrūs vaikinai, kad gali ką nors pastebėti, jei Dievas pats nesuteikia sąlygos. (92-93)

The door to happiness opens outward.

My sorrow is my castle.

In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for a person to withdraw from the turmoil of the world (we see that Christ withdrew when the people wanted to proclaim him king as well as when he had to walk the thorny path), for in life either the depressing or the elevating impression is too dominant for a true balance to come about. Here, of course, individuality is very decisive.

I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.