Individual Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

— Soren Kierkegaard

In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd.…

— Soren Kierkegaard

...busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart...

— Soren Kierkegaard

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love…

— Soren Kierkegaard

An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has…

— Soren Kierkegaard

It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham…

— Soren Kierkegaard

In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a…

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

— 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

Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it,…

— Soren Kierkegaard