{"author":"Soren Kierkegaard","author_id":"Soren+Kierkegaard","total_quotes":43,"quotes":[{"text":"Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.","author":"Soren Kierkegaard","tags":["christians","christianity"],"id":7028,"author_id":"Soren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.","author":"Soren Kierkegaard","tags":["important","relationships "],"id":7491,"author_id":"Soren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.","author":"Soren Kierkegaard","tags":["living","trouble","common "],"id":39729,"author_id":"Soren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.","author":"Soren Kierkegaard","tags":["crowds","masses"],"id":45038,"author_id":"Soren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.","author":"Soren Kierkegaard","tags":["beautiful","heart","poetry "],"id":49142,"author_id":"Soren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"Purity of heart is to will one thing.","author":"Soren Kierkegaard","tags":["concentration"],"id":57030,"author_id":"Soren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.","author":"Soren Kierkegaard","tags":["life","thoughts","intellectual "],"id":58784,"author_id":"Soren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.","author":"Soren Kierkegaard","tags":["past","hurry","pleasure "],"id":58867,"author_id":"Soren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have  for example  freedom of thought  instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.","author":"Soren Kierkegaard","tags":["liberty","human","rights"],"id":77513,"author_id":"Soren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"Life can only be understood backwards  but it must be lived forward.","author":"Soren Kierkegaard","tags":["past"],"id":83616,"author_id":"Soren+Kierkegaard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}