755 Quotes by Søren Kierkegaard

All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

The Bible is God's love letter to us

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.

Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.