The less support an idea has,the more fervently it must be believed in, so that a totally preposterous idea requires unflinching faith.
Søren KierkegaardA Reflexão é o anjo exterminador da espontaneidade… Se fosse verdade que a reflexão devesse controlar a inclinação amorosa, nunca haveria casamento.
Søren KierkegaardPeople demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Søren KierkegaardTags: intelligence liberty free-will freedom stupidity free-speech civil-rights
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.
Søren KierkegaardTags: existentialism
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
Søren KierkegaardTags: philosophy poets theology critical-thinking
I might be tempted to make to Christendom a proposal different from that of the Bible society. Let us collect all the New Testaments we have, let us bring them out to an open square or up to the summit of a mountain, and while we all kneel let one man speak to God thus: 'Take this book back again; we men, such as we now are, are not fit to go in for this sort of thing, it only makes us unhappy,' This is my proposal, that like those inhabitants in Gerasa we beseech Christ to depart from our borders. This would be an honest and human way of talking -- rather different from the disgusting hypocritical priestly fudge...
Søren KierkegaardTags: theology ref-instant-3
Instead of proclaiming the ideals, they educe what experience teaches, what the experience of all the centuries has taught, that the millions get no further than mediocrity.
Søren KierkegaardTags: ref-instant-9-2
But the eternal is not a thing which can be had regardless of the way in which it is acquired; no, the eternal is not really a thing, but is the way in which it is acquired.
Søren KierkegaardTags: ref-instant-2-3
It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion
Søren KierkegaardDeep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.
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