No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?
Søren KierkegaardOut of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.
Søren KierkegaardTags: humor life philosophy
On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart
Søren KierkegaardThe proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
Søren KierkegaardTags: christianity god bible pride
In the first case, he personally enjoyed the esthetic; in the second case, he esthetically enjoyed his personality.
Søren KierkegaardAdversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
Søren KierkegaardTags: beauty adversity harmony
Boredom is the only continuity the ironist has.
Søren KierkegaardPhilosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out of something by making them think it is nothing.
Søren KierkegaardTags: philosophy
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.
Søren KierkegaardTags: adventure self-discovery anxiety
It is impossible to exist without passion
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