Søren Kierkegaard

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

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

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

“Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it,...”

“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure d...”

“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”

“Hope is a passion for the possible.”

“Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and mov...”

“la vida sólo puede ser entendida mirando hacia atrás; aunque deba ser vivida mirando hacia adelante”

“Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating peop...”

“It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more...”

“No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.”

“A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.”

“For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”

“The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship p...”

“In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contradiction to all that is 'to a certain degree'.”

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

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

“to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.”

“Sitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has sprung a leak, then enthusiastically to keep the ship afloat by pumping and not to seek the...”