Soren Kierkegaard

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

“It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.”

“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.”

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

“During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.”

“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.”

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

“Once you label me you negate me.”

“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”

“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.”

“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”

“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.”