Soren Kierkegaard Is Quotations

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

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

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see

To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is an unchristian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what not, it was the work of love which was his life.

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.