Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.
Soren KierkegaardIdleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.
Soren KierkegaardI feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Soren KierkegaardAny truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.
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