Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly 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
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious. — 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… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Christian heroism, and indeed one perhaps sees little enough of that, is to risk unreservedly being oneself, an individual human being, this… — 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
The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“He who first invented the notion of defending Christianity is de facto Judas No. 2; he also betrays with a kiss, only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to… — 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
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
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest)… — 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
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
