“God mocks the greatness of man by forging them into the law of occasion, so a person in turn mocks by making… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“On principle' one can do anything and what one does is, fundamentally, a matter of indifference, just as a man's life remains… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep;… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“If I could forget you! Is my love then a work of memory? Even if time expunged everything from its tablets, expunged… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“For whether it be the lightly armed desire of youth which it is presumed will press forward to victory, or whether it… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“An increased power of reflection like an increased knowledge only adds to man's affliction, and above all it is certain that for… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Because of the a priori element in intention, good intentions are so tempting - compared with a successive unfolding in time -… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“A man can wish to slink away from many things in life, and he may even succeed, so that life’s favored one… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“After all, it is the best time of one’s life, the first period of falling in love, when with every meeting, every… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Although I am still far from this kind of interior understanding of myself, with profound respect for its significance I have sought… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The tedium vitae so constant in antiquity was due to the fact that the outstanding individual was what others could not be… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you rise in your lovely grace;… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The levelling process is the victory of abstraction over the individual. The levelling process in modern times, corresponds, in reflection, to fate… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“...for our times are not satisfied with faith and not even with the miracle of changing water into wine - they 'go… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“How far removed in time must an event be for us to remember it? How far for memory's longing to be no… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The most ludicrous of all ludicrous things, it seems to me, is to be busy in the world, to be a man… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“At vove er at miste fodfæstet et kort øjeblik - ikke at vove er at miste sig selv.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Who tricked me into this whole thing and leaves me standing here? Who am I? How did I get into the world? Why was… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“If a man had a little button sewn on the inner pocket of his coat 'on principle' his otherwise unimportant and quite serviceable action… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I stick my finger in existence — it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? How came I here? What is this… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I am poor—you are my riches; dark—you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After all, it… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“But there is a concerned guide, a knowing one, who attracts the attention of the wanderer, who calls out to him that he should… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“There is something frightful in the fact that the most dangerous thing of all, playing at Christianity, is never included in the list of… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Yet in another and still more definite sense despair is the sickness unto death. It is indeed very far from being true that, literally… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Sitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has sprung a leak, then… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
