To the frivolous, Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious
More Quotes from Soren Kierkegaard:
It is quite true what Philosophy says that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.Soren Kierkegaard
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
Soren Kierkegaard
That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity.
Soren Kierkegaard
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority.
Soren Kierkegaard
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Soren Kierkegaard
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Christianity QuotesI'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.
Joe DiMaggio
I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.
Cliff Martinez
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
John W. Gardner