Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. Soren Kierkegaard childhoodconcepthistory share on social
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 beginbirthcry share on social
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. Soren Kierkegaard makemanpersonality Change image and share on social
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. Soren Kierkegaard facefact Change image and share on social
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. Soren Kierkegaard creategodmake Change image and share on social
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. Soren Kierkegaard lovetake Change image and share on social
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. Soren Kierkegaard beginmartyrrule Change image and share on social
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. Soren Kierkegaard admitcompletelyfruitful Change image and share on social
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. Soren Kierkegaard callembryoexpose share on social
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 divineforgetgreat Change image and share on social
