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
You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward. — 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
“Imagination is what providence uses to take men captive in actuality, in existence, in order to get them far enough out, or… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest)… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence. — 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
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in lifes relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the… — 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
