755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse!

It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.

Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.