Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight to avoid this?
Søren KierkegaardTags: truth reality transparency
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Søren KierkegaardTruth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion — and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion… while truth again reverts to a new minority.
Søren KierkegaardTags: minority
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
Søren KierkegaardAs the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it must be answered: he destroys the given actuality by the given actuality itself.
Søren KierkegaardTags: irony
Because of the a priori element in intention, good intentions are so tempting - compared with a successive unfolding in time - and have so often in them some narcotic which develops an inner gaze instead of a resilience that begets energy.
Søren KierkegaardIt is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand...
Søren KierkegaardSince my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die.
Søren KierkegaardOnly the noble of heart are called to difficulty.
Søren KierkegaardFor he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.
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