Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which… — 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
It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but… — 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
