Soren Kierkegaard

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

The greatest danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

The most painful state of being is rememberin' the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

The very concept of a 'public' makes a mockery of individuality.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose oneself.

The dialectic of despair is this, that the despairing self is unable to get rid of itself.

It is not the path I have chosen, but the path I am choosing.

The more one thinks, the more one is confused.

The highest good is faith.

Marriage is and remains the most important discovery of the human race.

The present age is essentially a sensible, reflecting age, which is without passion, and which therefore breaks out into no enthusiasm.

The greatest good to a human being is to be a human being, a truth that is not grasped by those who believe they have become something higher.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

I see it all, I understand it all, but I do not know how to bring it about.

The paradox of faith is that the individual is higher than the universal.

The most dreadful of all diseases is to be a nonentity.

In relation to my life, I have always acted as a kind of spy.

The moment of decision is madness.

The unhappy man is one who has the future for his present, and the present for his future.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught.