In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.
Soren KierkegaardJurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
Soren KierkegaardI have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.
Soren KierkegaardMy tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.
Soren KierkegaardAn individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.
Soren Kierkegaard