Soren Kierkegaard

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God.

Søren Kierkegaard

I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.

Søren Kierkegaard

I need the enchantment of creative work to help me forget life’s mean pettiness.

Søren Kierkegaard

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations – one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it – you will regret both.

Søren Kierkegaard

If a man in truth wills the good then he must be willing to suffer all for the good.

Søren Kierkegaard

If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.

Søren Kierkegaard

If he is not supposed to be that, then he is a hypocrite, and the higher he climbs on this path, the more dreadful a hypocrite he is.

Søren Kierkegaard

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

Søren Kierkegaard

Instead of proclaiming the ideals, they educe what experience teaches, what the experience of all the centuries has taught, that the millions get no further than mediocrity.

Søren Kierkegaard

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do.

Søren Kierkegaard