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 When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper? Soren Kierkegaard answers If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. Soren Kierkegaard modern silence world The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen! Soren Kierkegaard news world christ What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring Soren Kierkegaard differences sky beautiful All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary. Soren Kierkegaard elevation moral firsts Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away. Soren Kierkegaard distance taken thinking Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us. Soren Kierkegaard philosophical nurse philosophy It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God. Soren Kierkegaard identity heart trying You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed. Soren Kierkegaard despair pain care The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'. Soren Kierkegaard doctors silence advice To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is an unchristian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what not, it was the work of love which was his life. Soren Kierkegaard nature christian heart It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many there are who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution? Soren Kierkegaard yarn labyrinth mazes Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines. Soren Kierkegaard actors drama people What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement. Soren Kierkegaard political-will religious faith The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. Soren Kierkegaard passion soul life Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission. Soren Kierkegaard passion powerful christian Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love Soren Kierkegaard sea love two Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance. Soren Kierkegaard sadness dancing people Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. Soren Kierkegaard dream time birthday Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time. Soren Kierkegaard truth-is individual
