755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible is the battle, in a person's innermost being, between God and the world. The crowning risk involved lies in the possession of choice.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion. Every one knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is willing to move.

Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.