A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If… — 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
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
The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read.… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is… — 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
Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When you say 'Yes' or promise something, you can very easily deceive yourself and others also, as if you had already done… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have… — 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
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
