Philosophy Quote by Søren Kierkegaard — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“To dare is to lose ones footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”

“Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.”

“Hope is a passion for the possible.”

“No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.”

“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight to avoid this?”

“la vida sólo puede ser entendida mirando hacia atrás; aunque deba ser vivida mirando hacia adelante”

“I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.”

“The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.”

“Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.”

“Memories bleached”

“Don’t dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!”

“Bad men rule by the feebleness of the ruled; and this is just; the triumph of weaklings would not be just.”