I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the… — 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
If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern… — 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
