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
Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope… — 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
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . .… — 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
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
What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false. — 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
It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end,… — 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
