Kierkegaard Famous Quotes



People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

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


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"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."
Samuel Adams

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Miguel de Cervantes

"Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained."
Arthur Somers Roche

"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence."
Henri Estienne

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy."
Ben Stein

"Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also."
Seneca

You can only flap your arms so much before gravity catches up to you.
J and A Foundation

Frank Blue you're my boy
Old School