32 Quotes About Kierkegaard

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

I never really saw the celerity of your heartWhen busy fighting off the Kierkegaardian partI listened to PlutarchWhile you threw out something of oursLike humans are shoes you merely use in certain hours

Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.

People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion.

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought

There is literally no way to have an opinion, in public, in 2018 AD, and not be involved in the hierarchy of global evil.

It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but this I do gain and in all eternity can never renounce—it is a self-contradiction. But it takes a paradoxical and humble courage to grasp the whole temporal realm now by virtue of the absurd, and this is the courage of faith.

Boredom is a form of evil; perhaps one of Kierkegaard's characters was more correct when he said, "Boredom is the root of all evil." Boredom is a preview of death, if not itself a form of death, and when trapped in prolonged boredom, even the most saintly of us will hope for, pray for, or even engineer relief, however demonic.