Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes all love from lust is the fact that it bears an impress of eternity.” — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask... — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me". — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Now she has power and passion and the struggle has significance for me-let the momentary consequences be what they may. Suppose that… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“They were not unfortunate girls who, as outcasts or in the belief that they were cast out by society, grieved wholesomely and… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The majority enjoy a young girl as they enjoy a glass of champagne, at one effervescent moment-oh, yes, that is really beautiful,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“So now begins the first war with Cordelia' in which I retreat and thereby teach her to be victorious as she pursues… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I shall be your poet! I do not want to be a poet for others; make your appearance, and I shall be… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“A person who speaks like a book is exceedingly boring to listen to; sometimes, however, it is not inappropriate to talk in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
“A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known —… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
