Soren Kierkegaard

Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The door to happiness opens outward.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Once you label me you negate me.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Where there are two people, there is untruth.

— Soren Kierkegaard

To be a saint is to will the one thing.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Don't forget to love yourself.

— Soren Kierkegaard

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

— Soren Kierkegaard

To love another person is to help them love God.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

— Soren Kierkegaard

A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“There is a view of life which conceives that where the crowd is, there is also truth. There is another view of…

— Soren Kierkegaard

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

— Soren Kierkegaard

What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

— Soren Kierkegaard

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

— Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Satan's despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and all men in his predicament) every…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea…

— Soren Kierkegaard

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“All men have a natural fear of making a mistake--by believing too well of a person. However, the error of believing too…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it…

— Soren Kierkegaard

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern…

— Soren Kierkegaard

A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which…

— Soren Kierkegaard

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when…

— Soren Kierkegaard

It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this…

— Soren Kierkegaard

And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope…

— Soren Kierkegaard

...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply…

— Soren Kierkegaard