Soren Kierkegaard

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Søren Kierkegaard

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.

Søren Kierkegaard

This is the way a person always gains courage; when he fears a greater danger, he always has the courage to face a lesser one; when he is exceedingly afraid of one danger, it is as if the others did not exist at all.

Søren Kierkegaard

Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.

Søren Kierkegaard

To be a saint is to will the one thing.

Søren Kierkegaard

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

Søren Kierkegaard

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

Søren Kierkegaard

To stand on one leg and prove God’s existence is a very different thing from going down on one’s knees and thanking him.

Søren Kierkegaard

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Søren Kierkegaard

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

Søren Kierkegaard