Quotes by : Søren Kierkegaard

For with his little secret that he cannot divulge, the poet buys this power of the word to tell everybody....

A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a....

What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you rise....

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Hence it is a superficial view (which presumably has never seen a person in despair, not even one’s....

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

Now she has power and passion and the struggle has significance for me-let the momentary consequences....

I might be tempted to make to Christendom a proposal different from that of the Bible society. Let us....

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful:....

Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just....