Best Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard (Top 10)

  1. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
  2. People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
  3. 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.
  4. The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
  5. Once you label me you negate me."
  6. Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
  7. Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
  8. Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
  9. Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
  10. Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

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