It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Soren KierkegaardBecause of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
Soren KierkegaardOn the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.
Soren KierkegaardFaith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.
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