The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge… — 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
