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
“Only by investing and speaking your vision with passion can the truth, one way or the other, finally penetrate the reluctance of… — 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
Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge… — 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
