Gilbjergstien

Skirting the northernmost edges of the Danish island of Zealand, Gilbjergstien is a 2.5 km long walking and biking path between the cities of Gilleleje and Gilbjerghoved overlooking the Baltic Sea.

In addition to the stunning views of the ocean from 35 meter high cliffs, the walk was made famous by the Danish existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, who use to walk the same path in the mid-nineteenth century. It was on the Gilbjergstien that Kierkegaard penned one of his most famous quotes, writing “what I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die” (The Journals, August 1, 1835).