Soren Kierkegaard

“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”

“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.”

“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.”

“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”

“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.”

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”

“At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.”

“Purity of heart is to will one thing.”

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

“Once you label me you negate me.”

“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”

“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.”

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

“There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.”

“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”

“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.”

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

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

“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.”

“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.”