Soren Kierkegaard

The knight of faith is the only happy man, the heir of the finite, whereas the knight of infinite resignation is a stranger and a sojourner.

The specific character of despair is precisely this, that it is unaware of being despair.

The self is a relation which relates itself to itself or, what is the same thing, is in the relation's relating itself to itself.

The greatest good is not to be born.

The whole world is a misunderstanding.

To be a human being means to be a spirit.

The task is to venture out into the deeper waters of existence, to discover oneself in the infinite.

The spiritual man is always an exception.

The human race is a race of slaves, and it deserves to be so.

The more a man is a crowd, the less he is a man.

The difference between the aesthetic and the ethical is that the aesthetic is immediate, while the ethical is a choice.

The present age is essentially a sensible, reflecting age, which knows how to do everything, but which does nothing.

The most dangerous of all delusions is that you are not deluded.

The greatest good is not to be born, the second is to die soon.

The crowd is not merely untruth, but also, and even more so, an un-Christian concept.

The present age has lost all passion and enthusiasm.

The more a man is himself, the more he is an offense.

The ethical is the universal, and the universal is the ethical.

The aesthetic is that which is immediately perceived, the ethical is that which is chosen, and the religious is that which is believed.

I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me. But I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.