Speak Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

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

“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

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

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

Be that self which one truly is.

— Soren Kierkegaard

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Without risk, faith is an impossibility.

— Soren Kierkegaard