The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who… — 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
One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I… — 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
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
...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view,… — 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
No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He… — 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
