...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
Søren KierkegaardIn the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.
Søren KierkegaardStichwörter: money
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
Søren KierkegaardStichwörter: philosophy kierkegaard
A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
Søren KierkegaardStichwörter: life promises kierkegaard
The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.
Søren KierkegaardI begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Søren KierkegaardStichwörter: philosophical
to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.
Søren KierkegaardStichwörter: faith
What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know, except in so far as a certain knowledge must precede every action. The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. ... I certainly do not deny that I still recognize an imperative of knowledge and that through it one can work upon men, but it must be taken up into my life, and that is what I now recognize as the most important thing.
Søren KierkegaardAbove all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being
Søren KierkegaardEqually unthinkable among young men of today is a truly religious renunciation of the world, adhered to with daily self-denial. On the other hand almost any theological student is capable of something far more wonderful. He could found a society with the sole object of saving all those who are lost. The age of great and good actions is past, the present is the age of anticipation when even recognition is received in advance.
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