“A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.” MenLoveFirstsEndsPrayerTalkingListeningQuiet Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase in population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together; them Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the people were bored en masse.” PeopleMenWorldTogetherIncreasePopulationBoredBoredomProportionAdamAdam And EveCainAbelCain And Abel Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.” MenInterestingMost Interesting Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.” ThinkingMenWayUnderstandingExerciseUnderstoodOppositesComicTragicKnowledge And Understanding Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.” MenTwoSelfSpiritPossibilityEternalRelationInfiniteFactorsRelateFiniteSynthesis Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape.” KnowsMenDoeKnow HowHe ManJudgingTerribleAnxietyLaysCaughtInstantTortureSuspectsTrapsAccusedSpyReadiness Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.” MenFirstsFeelingsDreamEffortMorningGenerationsConditionsBedWittyExcuseCleverFallenLazinessIndolenceRelapse Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.” MenTwoFightingDifferencesQualityOpinionTerribleInterpretationQuarrels Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.” MenMeanLevelsCreationConversationCreaturesSpeechDumbCategoriesDegradeChatterbox Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.” MenDoeHas BeensHandsMarkAimBowsArrowsArcher Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love” MenHumansSelfOrderHuman BeingsSelf LoveCuresNeighbour Author:Soren Kierkegaard
