Soren Kierkegaard quote: "In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love."

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense...
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The Media is an abstraction (because a newspaper is not concrete and only in an abstract sense can b...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its con...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the co...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in sea...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be mo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go o...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love fo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

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

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

Don't forget to love yourself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the in...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Once you label me, you negate me
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Honour him, dear Symparanekromenoi, for his grey hair and his misfortune.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought, which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair t...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fi...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They...
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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had falle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most signifi...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasion...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Life…can only be understood backwards…
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have. For example, the freedom of thought. Instead t...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off quietly as if it were nothing; ever...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.
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Nothing, nothing, nothing, no error, no crime is so absolutely repugnant to God as everything which ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the m...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

If mankind had not embedded itself, with the momentum of centuries and the passion of habit, in the ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Once you label me you negate me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb crea...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so l...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Purity of heart is to will one thing.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so f...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My hones...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Don't forget to love yourself. -Soren Kierkegaard.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one fo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you be...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, b...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen bu...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes bac...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

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

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing th...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

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

Be that self which one truly is.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

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

Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened b...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but n...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale....
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and abou...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale....
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderh...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sle...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most signifi...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teachers that lo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravag...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, i...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot unders...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's stru...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

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

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not under...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, b...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet los...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do thi...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understan...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Don't forget to love yourself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one fo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet unt...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

What kind of power is it that dares intrude between me and my bride, the bride I myself have chosen ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
SOREN AABYE KIERKEGAARD

The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
SOREN AABYE KIERKEGAARD

A Swede quoting a Dane
KIERKEGAARD

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
KIERKEGAARD

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
KIERKEGAARD

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
KIERKEGAARD

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays...
KIERKEGAARD

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
KIERKEGAARD

Once you label me you negate me.
KIERKEGAARD

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use...
KIERKEGAARD

You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years...
TABITHA SOREN

It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the ...
TABITHA SOREN

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

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from...
TABITHA SOREN

Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, ...
TABITHA SOREN

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with i...
TABITHA SOREN

At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news...
TABITHA SOREN

In 2008, Nokia expects that 3 billion people will be owning a mobile phone, with much of this growth...
SOREN PETERSEN

If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audien...
TABITHA SOREN

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audienc...
TABITHA SOREN

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
TABITHA SOREN

The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.
TABITHA SOREN

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
TABITHA SOREN

It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't pro...
TABITHA SOREN

I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.
TABITHA SOREN

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read th...
TABITHA SOREN

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
TABITHA SOREN

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My hon...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,
but it is belief that is the positive, it is ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had falle...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

Whether you are man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or free, happy or unhappy; whether you bore in...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

Besides, Christianity is not a doctrine to be taught, but rather a life to be lived.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understan...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a comp...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

آیا مضحک تر از این مردم یافت می شود، که هیچ وقت از آزادی ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it see...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

Let other complain that the age is wicked; my complaint is that it is paltry; for it lacks passion. ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend,...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in th...
TABITHA SOREN

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.
TABITHA SOREN

At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particu...
TABITHA SOREN

At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific ...
TABITHA SOREN

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I ...
TABITHA SOREN

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

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

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.

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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.

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