May Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

May new sufferings torment your soul.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

— Soren Kierkegaard

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

— Soren Kierkegaard

It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you…

— Soren Kierkegaard

It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . .…

— Soren Kierkegaard

In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who…

— Soren Kierkegaard

A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering…

— Soren Kierkegaard

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will…

— Soren Kierkegaard

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when…

— Soren Kierkegaard

And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest)…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with…

— Soren Kierkegaard

A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He…

— Soren Kierkegaard

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