Soren Kierkegaard

Date of Birth:

05-May-1813

Nationality:

Denmark

Profession:

Soren Kierkegaard was a celebrated Danish poet, philosopher, social critic, theologian and religious author. He is also regarded as the foremost existentialist philosopher. His writings included critical texts on philosophy of religions, organized religion, morality, psychology, ethics and Christendom. Kierkegaard’s thoughts, views, opinions and writings exhibited his endearment for parables, metaphor and irony. ‘Socrates’ and ‘Socratic Methods’ served as a source of inspiration to him. The psychological works by him probed the feelings and emotions of individuals when faced with life’s choices. His key concepts included objective and subjective truths, faith as a passion, three stages of life’s way, the knight of faith and the infinite qualitative distinction amongst others. Following is a compilation of some famous sayings and quotes by Soren Kierkegaard whose writings till date has a wide readership and are quoted extensively.

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God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.

The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

Confidence is the present tense of hope.

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

Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?