#be

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#demand #freedom #freedom of speech #how #liberties

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#divine #forget #greater #his #life

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#birth #could #cry #dying #ends

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#come #comes #every #faith #far

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

#dies #his #martyr #over #rule

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#because #believe #cannot #capable #god

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. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#cannot #catch #catches #caught #only

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#becoming #capable #doing #enormously #every

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

#evil #far #good #idleness #only

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#anyone #begins #bid #cheap #clearance