755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

What labels me, negates me.

A curiously interested observer sees a great deal, a scientifically interested observer is worthy of all honor, and anxiously interested observer sees what others do not see, but a crazy observer sees perhaps the most, his observation is more intense and more persistent, just as the senses of certain animals are sharper than those of man.

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

I would have perished had I not perished.

Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it

...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.