Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.
Soren KierkegaardIn order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.
Soren KierkegaardSpirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.
Soren KierkegaardTo stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him.
Soren KierkegaardThe only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.
Soren Kierkegaard