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
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As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.
The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
The God that can be named is not God.
One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows through an idea in his mind is, and always will be, essentially unpopular. That is why Socrates was unpopular, though he did not use any special terms, for to grasp and hold his 'ignorance' requires greater vital effort than understanding the whole of Hegel's philosophy.
Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.
And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.
This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.
I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.
Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.
... all comparisons injure.
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.
If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.