Author: Soren Kierkegaard

Quotes

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

- 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

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 function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

- Soren Kierkegaard

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