Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an… — 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
