Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, Truth, Believe

• Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance. . . . Yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair. . . . An individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. But precisely this-not to be conscious of oneself as spirit-is despair, which is spiritlessness. . . .

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Ignorance, Negativity, Individuality

• One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows through an idea in his mind is, and always will be, essentially unpopular. That is why Socrates was unpopular, though he did not use any special terms, for to grasp and hold his 'ignorance' requires greater vital effort than understanding the whole of Hegel's philosophy.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Expression

• The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Ignorance, Doe, Knows

  "Philosophical Fragments" by Soren Kierkegaard, (Preface), 1844.

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