Home / Quotes / Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

“The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.”

Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard was a 19th-century Danish philosopher known for his existentialist philosophy and profound explorations of religious, ethical, and aesthetic issues. His ideas have had a profound impact on subsequent philosophers and literature. more

You May Also Like

“That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself.”

Humans Generations Tasks Deluded How To Love Previous Generations

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.”

World Persons Whole Beautiful Values Pleasure Honor Goodness Be Good Riches Strikes Whole World Best Things Comparison Beautiful Things

Author:Charles Kingsley

“A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.”

Thinking Moments Past Missing Present Moment Sacraments Thinking About The Past

Author:R. D. Laing

“Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.”

Bigs Difficult Plans Lays Starting Accomplishment

Book:Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching

“Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing.”

Author:Laozi

“Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.”

Men Joy Acting Eternal Creating Function Each Day Torment

Author:Le Corbusier

“A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible.”

Thinking Together Strong Danger Weak Multitudes

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.”

Wise Advice Depends Being Wise Good Advice Shrewdness

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.”

Self Moving Choices Growth Dozen

Author:Abraham Maslow

“It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.”

Knows Enough Would Be Past

Author:W. Somerset Maugham