“Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do” KnowsIronyIronicIrony Of LifeFinitudeRejuvenation Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.” PeopleKnowsIdeasActorsLostLinesStageStandingPraiseBlameWingsCriticsPreacherReminding Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.” KnowsDoeAsksIgnorance Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.” KnowsHumansMeanDoeHas BeensReasonFactsSinViewsVirtueStandardsOppositesLatterPaganOverlooked Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.” ThinkingKnowsShouldLightLordStudyTiredOneselfReally MeanI'm TiredCigarEnigma Author: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.” KnowsMenCourageKnow HowBecomingCapableEvery ManThriveCapabilityGetting HighCreating Fear Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.” KnowsWellsChristianEasyChristianityMinutesBibleBunchPretendingBiblicalObligedGospelLack Of UnderstandingSwindlers Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?” ThinkingKnowsLittlesHoursMaskMidnightSneak Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.” IfsKnowsWorldShouldMayWholeFactsHelpingActionResultsVirtueJudgingHeroWhole WorldOutcomesVerge Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.” KnowsWantKindPersonsWould BeWishPovertyBearsCapableStandingAbuseEtcSaying NoFuriousTold You So Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.” IfsKnowsWellsStillsStatesFeelingsDesireLosesWalksWalkingSittingEverydayIllIllnessWell BeingTrekkingStrollingSitting Still Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion. Every one knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is willing to move.” KnowsWayDifferentAgeMovingPassionUnderstandingDealsGenerationsWillingOughtAverageFormerDifferent WaysKnowledgeable Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.” KnowsNeedsIdeasMatterPurposeDiesClearWillingExistentialismCrucialWhat Matters Author:Soren 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.” KnowsUseAgeModernSolitudeSentencesPunishmentSatireJailEpigramsModern Age Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler” KnowsWantDoeGirlLosesKnow HowSightRemains Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.” IfsKnowsWayMayHelpingOrderUnderstandingLearningGreaterInstruction Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it. He therefore who has leaned rightly to be in anxiety has learned the most important thing.” IfsKnowsMenImportantKnownAdventureAnxietyImportant ThingsEvery ManSinkingAffrontPerdition Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.” KnowsNeedsClear Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.” KnowsDoeSoulMomentsMightEarsAbsolutesIronyIronicIndispensablePersonal LifeCleaningWhisperingBaptismRegenerationIrony Of LifeFinitudeRejuvenation Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.” KnowsCharacterPassionAttitudeBalanceScientistCompulsionManiaHomicidal Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God is, there He is always creating... He wants to create a new human being. To need God is to become new. And to know God is the crucial thing.” KnowsWantNeedsHumansChristianHuman BeingsKnowingConditionsCreatingIntentionOrthodoxCrucialAssistanceKnowing GodOrthodox ChristianSanctificationNeed GodGod Is There Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He places Himself, so to say, on the same level of choice with the world, just so that we may be able to choose; that God, if language dare speak thus, woos humankind - that He, the eternally strong one, woos sapless humanity? Yet, how insignificant is the young lover's choice between her pursuers by comparison with this choice between God and the world.” IfsKnowsWorldHumansMayAbleChristianYoungHumanityChoicesSpeakLanguageStrongHuman BeingsLevelsExpressionLoversDareComparisonOrthodoxDo You KnowOverwhelmingHumankindInsignificantOrthodox ChristianYoung LoveHumblingExtravaganceCondescensionCondescension And Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape.” KnowsMenDoeKnow HowHe ManJudgingTerribleAnxietyLaysCaughtInstantTortureSuspectsTrapsAccusedSpyReadiness Author:Soren 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.” KnowsPersonsSelfScientistMiracleHeedMiracle Of Life Author:Soren Kierkegaard
