48 quotes
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
“Hope is a passion for the possible.”
"- a bad conscience is indeed able to make life interesting."
on Life
"to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God."
on Faith
"I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it."
"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."
on Fear
"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."
"Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate."
on Anxiety
"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."
on Patience
"If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe."
"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."
"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
on Identity
"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor."
on Critical Thinking
"The tyrant dies and his rule is over the martyr dies and his rule begins."
"What our age lacks is not reflection but passion."
on Emotion
"People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation."
on Freedom
"Adversity not only draws people together but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship."
on Wisdom
"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth."
on Truth
"Truth is not introduced into the individual from without but was within him all the time."
"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."
"Purity of heart is to will one thing."
on Philosophy
"Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays."
