The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in… — 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
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
Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he… — 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
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use… — 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
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
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
The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the… — 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
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