Quotes from Soren Kierkegaard
To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
- Soren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
- Soren Kierkegaard
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Once you label me you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
- Soren Kierkegaard
For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Take away the paradox from a thinker and you have a professor.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Many people think… that the Christian commandments (for instance, loving your neighbor as yourself) are purposely made too strict—rather like the clock being put half an hour fast to prevent them getting up much too late in the morning.
- Soren Kierkegaard