Author: Soren Kierkegaard

Quotes

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Don't forget to love yourself.

Don't forget to love yourself.

- Soren Kierkegaard

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

- Soren Kierkegaard

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

- Soren Kierkegaard

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

- Soren Kierkegaard

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