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
In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a… — 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
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones'… — 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
The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A curiously interested observer sees a great deal, a scientifically interested observer is worthy of all honor, and anxiously interested observer sees… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the… — 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
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting. — 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
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom… — 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
