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#1

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

#2

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

tags: faith, god, prayer

4572 likes

#3

“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

1333 likes

#4

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

tags: life, reality

2153 likes

#5

“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.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance

1982 likes

#6

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

1272 likes

#7

“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: insparational

802 likes

#8

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

tags: martyr, martyrdom, truth, tyrant

720 likes

#9

“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.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I

tags: humor

994 likes

#10

“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.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

tags: god, redemption, saints, sinners

579 likes

#11

“The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.”
― Soren A. Kierkegaard

tags: bible, christianity, god, pride

443 likes

#12

“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: adventure, anxiety, self-discovery

646 likes

#13

“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

tags: philosophy

562 likes

#14

“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: belief

359 likes

#15

“Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

184 likes

#16

“The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

116 likes

#17

“Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

169 likes

#18

“The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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