Spiritually, a man's thoughts must be the building in which he lives, otherwise it's wrong.
Søren KierkegaardWhat distinguishes all love from lust is the fact that it bears an impress of eternity.
Søren KierkegaardYou love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that is a motif for your aimless fantasy. You who always pride yourself on being an observateur must, in return, put up with becoming an object of observation. Ah, you are a strange fellow, one moment a child, the next an old man; one moment you are thinking most earnestly about the most important scholarly problems, how you will devote your life to them, and the next you are a lovesick fool. But you are a long way from marriage.
Søren KierkegaardThen faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to the universal through his relation to God, not his relation to God through his relation through the universal... Unless this is how it is, faith has no place in existence; and faith is then a temptation.
Søren KierkegaardMots clés faith temptation zealotry
The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.
Søren KierkegaardIo ho desiderato, fino alla disperazione, di poter essere tutto per lei, fino al giorno in cui ho appreso, nel dolore, che è infinitamente più nobile non essere, per lei, assolutamente niente.
Søren KierkegaardДа, истинная любовь не пойдет большой дорогой — по ней ходит только брак; она не изберет и проселочной тропинки — тропинка эта уже протоптана; любовь предпочитает сама пробивать себе дорогу.
Søren Kierkegaard. Там, где с течением времени вырабатывается индифферентность в этом отношении, поцелуй теряет свое настоящее значение. Это замечание относится преимущественно к супружеско-домашнему поцелую, которым супруги отирают после обеда друг другу рот за неимением салфетки, приговаривая: на здоровье!
Søren KierkegaardAnd although this (marital love) cannot be portrayed artistically, then let your consolation be, as it is mine, that we are not to read about or listen to or look at what is highest and the most beautiful in life, but are, if you please, to live it.
Therefore, when I readily admit that romantic love lends itself much better to artistic portrayal than marital love, this does not at all mean that it is less esthetic than the other - on the contrary, it is more esthetic.
Mots clés love marriage limits-of-art the-incommunicable the-unrepresentable
By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by being wise to the ways of the world, such a person forgets himself, in a divine sense forgets his own name, dares not believe in himself, finds being himself too risky, finds it much easier and safer to be like the others, to become a copy, a number, along with the crowd.
Now this form of despair goes practically unnoticed in the world. Precisely by losing oneself in this way, such a person gains all that is required for a flawless performance in everyday life, yes, for making a great success out of life. Here there is no dragging of the feet, no difficulty with his self and its infinitizing, he is ground smooth as a pebble, as exchangeable as a coin of the realm. Far from anyone thinking him to be in despair, he is just what a human being ought to be. Naturally, the world has generally no understanding of what is truly horrifying.
Mots clés wisdom success loss despair self value becoming-a-copy self-loss
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