KIERKEGAARD44

The invitation to all throws open the Inviter's arms, and there He stands, an everlasting picture. [Training in Christianity]

The law of delicacy, according to which an author is allowed to draw on his own experinece, is that he never speaks the truth but keeps it for himself and only lets it out in a different way. [1843]

The lies, gossip, and vulgarity that surround one make one's position fairly difficult at times, perhaps make me much too anxious to have the truth on my side, down to the least thread--what's the use? [Concluding Postscript, 1846]

The lovers are sincerely convinced that their relationship is in itself a complete whole which never can be altered. But since this assurance is founded only upon a natural determinant, the eternal is thus based upon the temporal and thereby cancels itself. [Either/Or, VOL. II: THE AESTHETIC VALIDITY OF MARRIAGE]

The loving man, he in whom there is love, hides the multitude of sins, sees not his neighbor's fault, or, if he sees, hides it from himself and from others; love makes him blind in a sense far more beautiful than this can be said of a lover, blind to his neighbor's sins. On the other hand, the loving man, he in whom there is love, though he has his faults, his inperfections, yea, though they were a multitude of sins, yet love, the fact that there is love in him, hides the multitude of sins. [Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays]

The lowest depth to which people can sink before God is defined by the word "Journalist."...If I were a father and had a daughter who was seduced, I should not despair over her; I would hope for her salvation. But if I had a son who became a journalist, and continued to be one for five years, I would give him up.... ["The Daily Press"]

The majority of men are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, terribly objective sometimes--but the real task is to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

The man who can really stand alone in the world, only taking counsel from his conscience--that man is a hero....

The married man, being a true conquerer, has not killed time but has saved it and preserved it in eternity. The maried man who does this truly lives poetically. He solves the great riddle of living in eternity and yet hearing the hall clock strike, and hearing it in such a way that the stroke of the hour does not shorten but prolong his eternity. [Either/Or, VOL. II: THE AESTHETIC VALIDITY OF MARRIAGE]

The more effort a person puts into his daily existence, the less he is inclined to speech making. ["Existential--Rhetorics (Eloquence)", 1851]

The more insignificant, on the other hand, anything is, the more difficult it is to bring the God-idea into relation with it; and yet it is precisely here that we have the touchstone of the God-relationship. [Concluding Unscientific Postscript]