A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'. — 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
Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it — 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
The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for… — 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
No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were… — 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 generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that… — 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
