01UndatedLove is the unfathomable ground that is hidden in darkness, but the resolution is the triumphant victor who, like Orpheus, fetches the infatuation of falling in love to the light of day, for the resolution is the true form of love, the true explanation and transfiguration.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
03UndatedThe tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
04UndatedThe function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
05UndatedGod creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
06UndatedThe proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
07UndatedFor he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
08UndatedPeople try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
09UndatedIn relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contradiction to all that is 'to a certain degree'.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
11UndatedPeople settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
12UndatedAnd when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
14UndatedA poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music. People corwd around the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
15UndatedWhat looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
16UndatedFaith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in everygeneration may not come that far, but none comes further.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
18UndatedSitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has sprung a leak, then enthusiastically to keep the ship afloat by pumping and not to seek the harbor--that is the metaphor for having faith. (Concluding Unscientific Postscript)Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
19UndatedFaith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
20UndatedIt takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but this I do gain and in all eternity can never renounce—it is a self-contradiction. But it takes a paradoxical and humble courage to grasp the whole temporal realm now by virtue of the absurd, and this is the courage of faith.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
21UndatedThe more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
22UndatedIf someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is high time that I take advantage of this and promptly begin with the quadrille--people would presumably laugh a little at him, but in the world of spirit this is very plausible. What, then, is education? I believed it is the course the individual goes through in order to catch up with himself, and the person who will not go through this course is not much helped by being born in the most enlightened age.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
23UndatedPeople demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
24UndatedHow absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.Søren Kierkegaard / quote ↗
