Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Imagination is what providence uses to take men captive in actuality, in existence, in order to get them far enough out, or… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest)… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Life can only be understood going backward, but must be lived going forward.” — SOREN KIERKEGAARD Copy Share Image
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
“A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known —… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
