Quotes by Kierkegaard, Soren

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says >>

The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against anoth >>

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. >>

Quotations about Martyrdom

The people who have really made history are the martyrs. >>

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense wit >>

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the corre >>

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, Soren