755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

Genius never desires what does not exist.

The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.

A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way.

It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.

It is impossible to exist without passion

That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sight into eternity.