A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what… — 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
A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag… — 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
“Only by investing and speaking your vision with passion can the truth, one way or the other, finally penetrate the reluctance of… — SOREN KIERKEGAARD Copy Share Image
It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth. — 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
In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“There is a view of life which conceives that where the crowd is, there is also truth. There is another view of… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“They call themselves believers and thereby signify that they are pilgrims, strangers and aliens in the world. Indeed, a staff in the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end,… — 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
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