Soren Kierkegaard

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

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

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward.

If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense of the potential for the eye which ever young and ardent sees the possible ... what wine is so sparkling so fragrant so intoxicating as possibility!

Teach me O God not to torture myself not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.

Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.

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

If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense of the potential for the eye which ever young and ardent sees the possible . . . what wine is so sparkling so fragrant so intoxicating as possibility!

What our age lacks is not reflection but passion.

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

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

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

Adversity not only draws people together but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

Without risk faith is an impossibility.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without but was within him all the time.