Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.
Soren KierkegaardThere are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.
Soren KierkegaardDeath induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.
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