Soren Kierkegaard Way Quotations

For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

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.

Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.

Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.

A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way.