Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.... — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask... — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me". — 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 more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes. — 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