Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom is the root of all evil. It is very curious that boredom, which itself has such a calm and sedate nature, can have such a capacity to initiate motion. The effect that boredom brings about is absolutely magical, but this effect is one not of attraction but of repulsion.

Søren Kierkegaard

But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive – and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.

Søren Kierkegaard

But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.

Søren Kierkegaard

But the eternal is not a thing which can be had regardless of the way in which it is acquired; no, the eternal is not really a thing, but is the way in which it is acquired.

Søren Kierkegaard

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.

Søren Kierkegaard

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.

Søren Kierkegaard

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

Søren Kierkegaard

Every individual, however original he may be, is still a child of God, of his age, of his nation, of his family and friends. Only thus is he truly himself. If in all this relativity he tries to be the absolute, then he becomes ridiculous.

Søren Kierkegaard

Everything depends upon how one is placed.

Søren Kierkegaard

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Søren Kierkegaard