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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It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.
My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.
Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.
to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays