Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself. Soren Kierkegaard More Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard More Quotes From Soren Kierkegaard You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that is a motif for your aimless fantasy. You who always pride yourself on being an observateur must, in return, put up with becoming an object of observation. Ah, you are a strange fellow, one moment a child, the next an old man; one moment you are thinking most earnestly about the most important scholarly problems, how you will devote your life to them, and the next you are a lovesick fool. But you are a long way from marriage. Soren Kierkegaard girl pride children Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect. Soren Kierkegaard demand atheism christianity This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith. Soren Kierkegaard views opposites mean Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance. . . . Yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair. . . . An individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. But precisely this-not to be conscious of oneself as spirit-is despair, which is spiritlessness. . . . Soren Kierkegaard negativity individuality ignorance It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion Soren Kierkegaard loses passion lost Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it. Soren Kierkegaard education may teacher ...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God is, there He is always creating... He wants to create a new human being. To need God is to become new. And to know God is the crucial thing. Soren Kierkegaard creating knowing christian Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid. Soren Kierkegaard photograph stupid looks Purity of heart is to will one thing. Soren Kierkegaard focus purity heart 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 reflection evil mean About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times. Soren Kierkegaard tea-leaves pieces three Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection Soren Kierkegaard leap leap-of-faith reflection A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil. Soren Kierkegaard critical-thinking devil poet Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. Soren Kierkegaard prayer love long I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius. Soren Kierkegaard dream insomnia sleep Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. Soren Kierkegaard adversity flower war Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. Soren Kierkegaard family roots work Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. Soren Kierkegaard doe sweet love Genius never desires what does not exist. Soren Kierkegaard genius doe desire Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it. Soren Kierkegaard certainty doors
