Money Quote by Søren Kierkegaard

“At vove er at miste fodfæstet et kort øjeblik - ikke at vove er at miste sig selv.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“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

“No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Intohimo ei merkitse sanoja.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“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

“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

“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

“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