Men Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

— Soren Kierkegaard

“A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

— Soren Kierkegaard

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which…

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love

— Soren Kierkegaard

Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it

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The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right…

— Soren Kierkegaard

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

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A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the…

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by…

— Soren Kierkegaard

If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the…

— Soren Kierkegaard

It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were…

— Soren Kierkegaard

A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only…

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when…

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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which…

— Soren Kierkegaard

To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which…

— Soren Kierkegaard

A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his…

— Soren Kierkegaard

In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a…

— Soren Kierkegaard

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

— Soren Kierkegaard

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

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One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the…

— Soren Kierkegaard

All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to…

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

A curiously interested observer sees a great deal, a scientifically interested observer is worthy of all honor, and anxiously interested observer sees…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the…

— Soren Kierkegaard

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for…

— Soren Kierkegaard

...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then…

— Soren Kierkegaard

As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the…

— Soren Kierkegaard