25 quotes by Søren Kierkegaard for those who are passionate about philosophy

To dare is to lose balance momentarily. Not to dare is to lose yourself.

Only those who have already changed can change others.

Suffer, it’s only once; win, is for eternity.

Prayer does not change God, it changes man.

During a man’s first period, the danger is not taking risks.

Life can only be understood by looking back, but it can only be lived by looking forward.

Adventuring causes anxiety, but failing to risk is losing yourself. And to venture in the highest sense is precisely to become aware of oneself.

Above all, don’t lose your desire to go on.

The tyrant dies and his reign ends, the martyr dies and his reign begins.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Standing up and proving the existence of God is quite different from getting on your knees and thanking Him.

The absence of despair does not equate to the absence of evil; because not being sick doesn’t mean we are, but not being desperate can be the very sign that we are.

There is nothing in which there is so much seduction and curse as in a secret.

The possible is an extraordinary mirror, which can only be used with the greatest prudence. It is actually a mirror that we can call a liar.

No sin, no sexuality, and no sexuality, no history.

Above all, don’t forget the obligation to love yourself.

A man’s personality is only mature when he finds his own truth.

Anguish is the vertigo of freedom. Vertigo that arises when the spirit, when wanting to put the synthesis, freedom fixes its eyes on the abyss of its own possibility and makes use of finitude to sustain itself.

The people ask for the power of speech to compensate for the power of free thought that they flee.

There is no true truth that is not subjective, that is, it is appropriate.

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? It’s me.

Life must be lived ahead, but it can only be understood if we look back.

The comedian, like the beast, is always alone.

The class of scientist-naturalists who want to completely liquidate God as superfluous, replacing Him with natural laws, is arrogant. They replace an unintelligible idea with an equivalent one. Under the presumption of very human control and comprehensibility over nature.