Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

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

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.