Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Evil

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  • 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.

    "Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard, ‎Howard Vincent Hong, ‎Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, Vol. 1, (p. 286), 2013.
  • This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.

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

    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
  • 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.

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

    "Phaedo" by Plato,
  • Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

    Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”
  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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Soren Kierkegaard

  • Born: May 5, 1813
  • Died: November 11, 1855
  • Occupation: Philosopher