Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christendom, morality, ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of religion, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and parables. Much of his philosophical work deals with the issues of how one lives as a "single individual", giving priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth5 May 1813
CityCopenhagen, Denmark
CountryDenmark
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And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.
This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.
I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.
Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.
... all comparisons injure.
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.
If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.
It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.
I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self
Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.
You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.