My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent... This is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self — 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 known —… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
