Humans Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love

— Soren Kierkegaard

It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not…

— Soren Kierkegaard

...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God…

— Soren Kierkegaard

This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things…

— Soren Kierkegaard

However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every…

— Soren Kierkegaard

A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a…

— Soren Kierkegaard

... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is…

— Soren Kierkegaard

...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did…

— Soren Kierkegaard

It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a…

— Soren Kierkegaard

That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No…

— Soren Kierkegaard

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the…

— Soren Kierkegaard