KIERKEGAARD26

In the end all world history will be piffle. [1848]

In the finite world, the power of superiority is in fact impotence. [1848]

In the proper sense of the word I had not lived, except in the character of spirit; a man I had never been, and a child or youth even less....For my misfortune (almost, I might say, from birth, completed by my upbringing) was...not to be a man. But when one is a child--and the other children play or joke or whatever else they do; oh! and when one is a youth--and the other young people make love and dance or whatever else they do--and then in spite of the fact that one is a child or youth, to be spirit! What torment! I've never had any immediate experience and so, in the ordinary human sense of the word, I've never lived. I began at once with reflection... I am reflection, from first to last. [The Point of View]

In the world of events He is present everywhere in every moment. ["The Unchangeableness of God"]

Indeed, if the press were to hand a sign out like every other trade, it would have to read: Here men are demoralized in the shortest possible time on the largest possible scale for the smallest possible price. ["The Daily Press"]

...introversion... inwardness with a jammed lock... [The Sickness unto Death]

Inwardly torn asunder as I was, without any expectation of leading a happy earthly life..., without hope of a happy and comfortable future--as this naturally springs from and inheres in the historical continuity of family life--what wonder then that in desperate despair I grasped at nought but the intellectual side in man and clung fast to it, so that the thought of my own considerable power of mind was my only consolation, ideas my only joy, and mankind indifferent to me. [25 Years Old]

Is it not strange that there should be something such in existence, in relation to which everyone who knows it knows also that he has not invented it, this pass-me-by not stopping or capable of being stopped even if we approached all men in turn?... It would certainly be absurd to expect of a man that he should of his own accord discover that he did not exist... for because a man knows how to use gunpowder and can resolve it into its contituent elements, it does not follow that he has invented it. [Philosophical Fragments]

Is knowledge higher than faith? By no means. [1842-3]

Is not despair simply double-mindedness? For what is despairing other than having two wills? [Purity of Heart]

Is then Jesus Christ not always the same? Yes, He is the same yesterday and today, the same that 1,800 years ago humbled Himself and took upon Him the form of a servant, the Jesus Christ who uttered these words of invitation. In His coming again in glory He is again the same Jesus Christ, but this has not yet occurred...
And about his coming again in glory nothing can be known; in the strictest sense, it can only be believed. [Training in Christianity]