Inspirational Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
“For you have confused the upper and lower worlds. You have thrust the child of this world into living night, You have kept from the gods below the child that is theirs. The one on a grave before her death, the other, Dead, denied the grave. This is your crime.”
“But if these men are wrong, let them suffer nothing worse than they mete out to me— these masters of injustice!”
“Warm für die Kalten leidet deine Seele. (warm for the cold does your soul burn) - Ismene to Antigone”
“Fate works most for woe With Folly’s fairest show. Man’s little pleasure is the spring of sorrow.”
“And also because - Oh, my darling, my darling, forgive me; I’m going to cause you quite a lot of pain.”
topics: pain
“Eros invencible en el combate, que te ensañas como en medio de reses, que pasas la noche en las blandas mejillas de una jovencita y frecuentas, cuando no el mar, rústicas cabañas. Nadie puede escapar de ti, ni aun los dioses inmortales; ni tampoco ningún hombre, de los que un día vivimos; pero tenerte a ti enloquece.”
“Hasta los más hábiles hombres caen, e ignominiosa es su caída cuando en bello ropaje ocultan infames palabras para servir a su avaricia.”
“El silencio así, en demasía, me parece un exceso gravoso, tanto como el griterío en balde.”
“By faith he was a stranger in the land of promise, and there was nothing to recall what was dear to him, but by its novelty everything tempted his soul to melancholy yearning — and yet he was God's elect, in whom the Lord was well pleased!”
“In infinite resignation there is peace and repose; anyone who wants it, who has not debased himself by—what is still worse than being too proud—belittling himself, can discipline himself into making this movement, which in its pain reconciles one to existence.”
“To strive against the whole world is a comfort, to strive with oneself is dreadful.”
“To be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know, except in so far as a certain understanding must precede every action. The thing is to understand myself…the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.”
“... when the ambitious man whose slogan is 'Either Caesar or nothing' does not get to be Caesar, he despairs over it. But this also means something else: precisely because he did not get to be Caesar, he now cannot bear to be himself.”
“If man were a beast or an angel, he would not be able to be in anxiety. Since he is both beast and angel, he can be in anxiety, and the greater the anxiety, the greater the man.”
topics: theconceptofanxiety
“Şcoala suferinţei e cea mai lungă, căci te pregăteşte pentru eternitate”
“There is so much talk about being offended by christianity because it is so dark and gloomy, offended because it is so rigorous etc. But it would be best of all to explain for once that the real reason that men are offended by christianity is that it is too high, because its goal is not man's goal, because it wants to make man into something so extraordinary that he cannot grasp the thought.”
“Is it not possible that my activity as an objective observer of nature will weaken my strength as a human being?”
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Kierkegaard left the task of discovering the meaning of his works to the reader, because "the task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted". Scholars have interpreted Kierkegaard variously as an existentialist, neo-orthodoxist, postmodernist, humanist, and individualist.
Crossing the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, he is an influential figure in contemporary thought.