“All men have a natural fear of making a mistake--by believing too well of a person. However, the error of believing too… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. Thus the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar, perhaps… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth. — 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
