Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“When you are one of several, then you have lost your freedom; you cannot send for your traveling boots whenever you wish,… — SOREN KIERKEGAARD Copy Share Image
The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Now she has power and passion and the struggle has significance for me-let the momentary consequences be what they may. Suppose that… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“A person who speaks like a book is exceedingly boring to listen to; sometimes, however, it is not inappropriate to talk in… — 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
