Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual." — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart... — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd.… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
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 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
It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a… — 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
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
Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a… — 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
![“An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of…” quote by Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/807/soren-kierkegaard-578_despair_an-individual-in-despair-despairs-over-s_2865905.jpg)
