There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The misfortune of our time is just this, that it has become simply nothing else but 'time', the temporal, which is impatient… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through… — 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
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person… — 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
To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“This is the profound secret of innocence, that at the same time it is dread.” — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my… — 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
