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• September 09
  “No single individual (I mean no outstanding individual — in the sense of leadership and conceived according to the dialectical category ‘fate’) will be able to arrest the abstract process of leveling, for it is negatively something higher, and the age of chivalry is gone. No society or association can arrest that abstract power, simply [...] […]
• September 08
  “In order that everything should be reduced to the same level it is first of all necessary to procure a phantom, a spirit, a monstrous abstraction, an all-embracing something which is nothing, a mirage — and that phantom is the public. It is only in an age which is without passion, yet reflective, that such [...] […]
• September 07
  “Oh, the sins of passion and of the heart — how much nearer to salvation than the sins of reason!” ——————————————————– ~Source: The Journals (18??) Author: Søren Kierkegaard Filed under: Blooms Tagged: The Journals […]
• September 06
  “In the infinite resignation there is peace and rest; every man who will, who has not abased himself by scorning himself (which is still more dreadful than being proud) can train himself to make these movements. The infinite resignation is that shirt we read about in the old fable. The thread is spun under tears, [...] […]
• September 5
  “The concept ‘neighbor’ is really a reduplication of your own self; the ‘neighbor’ is what philosophers would call the ‘other,’ the touchstone for  testing what is selfish in self-love. Insofar, for the sake of the thought, it is not even necessary that the neighbor should exist. If a man lived on a desert island, if [...] […]
• September 04
  “Who is there that knows the happy instant, who has comprehended the delight of it and has not sensed that dread lest something might suddenly occur, the most insignificant thing, yet with power to disturb it all! Who has held in his hand the magic lamp and yet not felt that swooning of delight at [...] […]
• September 03
  “One lives only once. If when death comes thy life is well spent, that is, spent so that it is related rightly to eternity — then God be praised eternally. If not, then it is irremediable — one lives only once.” ——————————————————————– ~Source: The Attack Upon “Christendom” (1854 – 1855) Author: Soren Kierkegaard Filed under: [...] […]
• September 02
  “The paradoxical character of the truth is its objective uncertainty; this uncertainty is an expression for the passionate inwardness, and this passion is precisely the truth. So far the Socratic principle. The eternal and essential truth, the truth which has an essential relationship to an existing individual because it pertains essentially to existence (al […]

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