Soren Kierkegaard

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#haste #hurry #men #most #past

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#asylum #built #dean #dreams #himself

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

#away #paradox #professor #take #thinker

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#cannot #immediately #necessary #reap #sown

Purity of heart is to will one thing. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#one thing #purity #thing #will

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

#love #love is #takes

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

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#common denominator #denominator #equalizer #great #living

One can advise comfortably from a safe port. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#comfortably #port #safe

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#made #man #only #own #personality