Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him.
Soren KierkegaardIf the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.
Soren KierkegaardIf anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.
Soren KierkegaardThere are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Soren KierkegaardThe unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
Soren KierkegaardThe spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.
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