God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go… — 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
Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's… — 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
