A Kierkegaard Anthology Quotes

“we must be honest, and not interpret this lack of courage as humility, since it is really pride, whereas the courage of faith is the only humble courage.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Kierkegaard Collection

“What is education? I should suppose that education was the curriculum one had to run through in order to catch up with oneself,”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Kierkegaard Collection

“For it is great to give up one’s wish, but it is greater to hold it fast after having given it up, it is great to grasp the eternal, but it is greater to hold fast to the temporal after having given it up.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Kierkegaard Collection

“There was one who was great by reason of his power, and one who was great by reason of his wisdom, and one who was great by reason of his hope, and one who was great by reason of his love; but Abraham was greater than all, great by reason of his power whose strength is impotence, great by reason of his wisdom whose secret is foolishness, great by reason of his hope whose form is madness, great by reason of the love which is hatred of oneself.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Kierkegaard Collection