Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Be that self which one truly is.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not under...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My hones...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Don't forget to love yourself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet los...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one fo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, b...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Don't forget to love yourself. -Soren Kierkegaard.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened b...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderh...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the m...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The Media is an abstraction (because a newspaper is not concrete and only in an abstract sense can b...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD If mankind had not embedded itself, with the momentum of centuries and the passion of habit, in the ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Once you label me you negate me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its con...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the co...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair t...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most signifi...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb crea...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teachers that lo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale....
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravag...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but n...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so l...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in sea...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be mo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Purity of heart is to will one thing.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go o...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love fo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's stru...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the in...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing th...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes bac...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale....
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen bu...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so f...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fi...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot unders...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual
SOREN KIERKEGAARD It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasion...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do thi...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life…can only be understood backwards…
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Honour him, dear Symparanekromenoi, for his grey hair and his misfortune.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have. For example, the freedom of thought. Instead t...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off quietly as if it were nothing; ever...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought, which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet unt...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Nothing, nothing, nothing, no error, no crime is so absolutely repugnant to God as everything which ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD What kind of power is it that dares intrude between me and my bride, the bride I myself have chosen ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had falle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understan...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one fo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever
SOREN KIERKEGAARD When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and abou...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Don't forget to love yourself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you be...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Once you label me, you negate me
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most signifi...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, b...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
SOREN AABYE KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
SOREN AABYE KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
KIERKEGAARD The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays...
KIERKEGAARD Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
KIERKEGAARD Once you label me you negate me.
KIERKEGAARD Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use...
KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
KIERKEGAARD A Swede quoting a Dane
KIERKEGAARD Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
TABITHA SOREN For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read th...
TABITHA SOREN At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particu...
TABITHA SOREN At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific ...
TABITHA SOREN Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
TABITHA SOREN At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news...
TABITHA SOREN When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I ...
TABITHA SOREN You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years...
TABITHA SOREN The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.
TABITHA SOREN Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from...
TABITHA SOREN Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, ...
TABITHA SOREN Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
TABITHA SOREN It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the ...
TABITHA SOREN It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't pro...
TABITHA SOREN In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in th...
TABITHA SOREN If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with i...
TABITHA SOREN If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audien...
TABITHA SOREN I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
TABITHA SOREN I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
TABITHA SOREN I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audienc...
TABITHA SOREN Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIRKEGAARD In 2008, Nokia expects that 3 billion people will be owning a mobile phone, with much of this growth...
SOREN PETERSEN The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We preten...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Once you label me you negate me.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,
but it is belief that is the positive, it is ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My hon...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can l...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
SøREN KIERKEGAARD What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed tha...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The matter is quite simple. The bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of s...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, th...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD