755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.

The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.