Inspirational Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself.”

“Faith begins precisely where thinking leaves off”

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.”

“There is a view of life which conceives that where the crowd is, there is also truth. There is another view of life which conceives that wherever there is a crowd, there is untruth.”

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

“Don't forget to love yourself.”

“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.”

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

“The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.”

“What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?”

“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?”

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”

“A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.”

“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.”

“Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.”

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”