More quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
"The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God."
"Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!"
"What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement."
"For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought"