Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself! Soren Kierkegaard More Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard More Quotes From Soren Kierkegaard Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time. Soren Kierkegaard truth-is individual Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love Soren Kierkegaard self men order Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity. Soren Kierkegaard rejects-you eternity world The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that. Soren Kierkegaard assistants doe mean Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment. Soren Kierkegaard philosopher philosophy science Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person. Soren Kierkegaard next religious spirit I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object. Soren Kierkegaard lovers doe long A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either. Soren Kierkegaard seducing men It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing. Soren Kierkegaard equal interest too-much It is intelligent to ask two questions: (1) Is it possible? (2) Can I do it?. But it is unintelligent to ask these questions: (1) Is it real? (2) Has my neighbor done it? Soren Kierkegaard intelligent real two If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much. Soren Kierkegaard ifs forget men Men who not religious or artists are fools. Soren Kierkegaard artist religious men Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes - we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual. Soren Kierkegaard eye spiritual life Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair. Soren Kierkegaard despair lawyer weakness Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air. Soren Kierkegaard air wind people To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious. Soren Kierkegaard serious wish firsts Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. Soren Kierkegaard personality made men Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind. Soren Kierkegaard thunderstorm genius wind To be a saint is to will the one thing. Soren Kierkegaard one-thing saint A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel. Soren Kierkegaard angel personality men
