Here are five great quotes from Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling:

One became great through expecting the possible, another by expecting the eternal; but he who expected the impossible became greater than all.

– Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

Whatever one generation learns from another, it can never learn from the predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh, has no task other than that of any previous generation, and comes no further, provided the latter didn’t shirk its task and deceive itself.

– Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

Fools and young people talk about everything being possible for a human being. But that is a great mistake. Everything is possible spiritually speaking, but in the finite world there is much that is not possible.

– Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

All that can save him is the absurd; and this he grasps by faith.

– Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

No person who has learned that to exist as the individual is the most terrifying thing of all will be afraid of saying it is the greatest.

– Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling