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
Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“All men have a natural fear of making a mistake--by believing too well of a person. However, the error of believing too… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish. — 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
“Then faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“They were not unfortunate girls who, as outcasts or in the belief that they were cast out by society, grieved wholesomely and… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. — 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
The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher. — 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
If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it,… — 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
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
For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith. — 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
