755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to give away a ducat to every one of the poor - but let him also be stupid enough to begin this charitable undertaking of his with a defense in which he offers three good reasons in justification; and it will almost come to the point of people finding it doubtful whether indeed he is doing something good. But now for Christianity. Yes, the person who defends that has never believed in it.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.

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

...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on having a penny without God, wants to have a penny all for himself. He thereby chooses mammon. A penny is enough, the choice is made, he has chosen mammon; that it is little makes not the slightest difference. The love of God is hatred of the world and love of the world hatred of God.