People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones'… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise. — 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
I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you.… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when… — 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
The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom… — 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
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen! — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world,… — 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
