Soren Kierkegaard Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.”

“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.”

“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 paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.”

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.”

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

“Once you label me you negate me.”

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

“If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.”