The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.
Soren KierkegaardThe presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
Soren KierkegaardIt is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.
Soren KierkegaardWhen you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?
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