Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Individuality

Quotes about: Individuality

• Be that self which one truly is.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Knowledge, Self, Individuality

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

• Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Tombstone, Individuality, Inscriptions

• An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Individuality, Despair, Want

• 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

• Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes - we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Spiritual, Eye

• In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for a person to withdraw from the turmoil of the world (we see that Christ withdrew when the people wanted to proclaim him king as well as when he had to walk the thorny path), for in life either the depressing or the elevating impression is too dominant for a true balance to come about. Here, of course, individuality is very decisive.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Depressing, Kings, Humility

  "Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers: Autobiographical, 1829-1848". Book by Søren Kierkegaard and Gregor Malantschuk, p. 33, Journals 1A 68 (July 29, 1835), 1978.

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