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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Don't forget to love yourself.

Don't forget to love yourself.

- Soren Kierkegaard

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