Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christendom, morality, ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of religion, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and parables. Much of his philosophical work deals with the issues of how one lives as a "single individual", giving priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth5 May 1813
CityCopenhagen, Denmark
CountryDenmark
Soren Kierkegaard quotes about
... all comparisons injure.
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion — and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion… while truth again reverts to a new minority.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.
For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.
To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.
Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.