Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand… — 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
Most people believe that the Christian commandments, e.g. to love one's neighbor as oneself, are intentionally a little too severe - like… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones'… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood. — 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
