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
Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to… — 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
It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is… — 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
