Soren Kierkegaard Quotes about Evil

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The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without

The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.

Soren Kierkegaard

Government, Evil, Choices

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.

Soren Kierkegaard

Mean, Roots, Evil

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

Soren Kierkegaard

Evil, Able, Possibility

Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay (2014). “The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

Soren Kierkegaard

Hate, Evil, Suffering

"Phaedo" by Plato,

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

Good Life, Roots, Evil

This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.

Soren Kierkegaard

Passion, Evil, Age

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Soren Kierkegaard

Roots, Bores You, Evil

"Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard, ‎Howard Vincent Hong, ‎Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, Vol. 1, (p. 286), 2013.

Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

Soren Kierkegaard

Mean, Reflection, Evil

Soren Kierkegaard Quotes about Evil

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