“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”

—  Sören Kierkegaard

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be …" by Sören Kierkegaard?
Sören Kierkegaard photo
Sören Kierkegaard 309
Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855

Related quotes

Theodore L. Cuyler photo

“I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help. Every fall without one exception came from venturing upon sinful ground or from venturing upon self-support.”

Theodore L. Cuyler (1822–1909) American minister

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 21.

Max Heindel photo

“We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.”

Max Heindel (1865–1919) American asrologer and occultist

The Rosicrucian Mysteries (1911)

Geoffrey Chaucer photo

“Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained”

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) English poet
Rabindranath Tagore photo

“Age considers; youth ventures.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
Cassandra Clare photo

“nothing ventured, nothing gained.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“Naught venture naught have.”

Thomas Tusser (1524–1580) English poet

"October's Abstract". Compare: "Naught venture naught have", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part I, Chapter XI.
A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

Silas Weir Mitchell photo

“The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.”

Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) American physician

Dreamland, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Context: Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.

Horace photo

“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”

Horace (-65–-8 BC) Roman lyric poet
Carl Sagan photo

“The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

0 min 40 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Backbone of Night [Episode 7]

“One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Related topics