Søren Kierkegaard: Frasi in inglese (pagina 5)

“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.”

“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.”

“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.”

“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.”

“It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are.”

“On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart”

“Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection”

“It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.”

“Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.”

“I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.”

“The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.”

“… why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?”

“Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,
but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief
that sustains thought and holds the world together.”

“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.”

“My sorrow is my castle.”

“A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.”

“I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.”

“Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!”

“Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.”