Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

Søren Kierkegaard

It costs a man just as much or even more to go to hell than to come to heaven. Narrow, exceedingly narrow is the way to perdition!

Søren Kierkegaard

It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.

Søren Kierkegaard

It is a question of discovering a truth which is truth for me, of finding the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

Søren Kierkegaard

It is in your power to review your life, to look at things you saw before, but from another point of view.

Søren Kierkegaard

It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.

Søren Kierkegaard

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

Søren Kierkegaard

It isn’t at all difficult for philosophy to begin. Far from it: it begins with nothing and can accordingly always begin. What seems so difficult to philosophy and the philosophers is to stop.

Søren Kierkegaard

It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat – as is the case with the better artists.

Søren Kierkegaard

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

Søren Kierkegaard