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
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
Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost? — 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
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 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
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
It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not… — 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
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
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live,… — 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
“When you are one of several, then you have lost your freedom; you cannot send for your traveling boots whenever you wish,… — 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
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
... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
