This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Only by investing and speaking your vision with passion can the truth, one way or the other, finally penetrate the reluctance of… — SOREN KIERKEGAARD Copy Share Image
One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read.… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a… — 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… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“They were not unfortunate girls who, as outcasts or in the belief that they were cast out by society, grieved wholesomely and… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I shall be your poet! I do not want to be a poet for others; make your appearance, and I shall be… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The majority enjoy a young girl as they enjoy a glass of champagne, at one effervescent moment-oh, yes, that is really beautiful,… — 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
