755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.

O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.

The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.