“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 [...] […]

“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 [...] […]

“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: [...] […]

“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 […]

“The present work has set as its task the psychological treatment of the concept of ‘anxiety,’ but in such a way that it constantly keeps in mente [in mind] and before its eye the dogma of hereditary sin. Sin, however, is no subject for psychological concern, and only by submitting to the service of a [...] […]

“It is so impossible for the world to exist without God that if God could forget it it would instantly cease to be.” ——————————————————– ~Source: The Journals (1837) Author: Søren Kierkegaard Filed under: Blooms Tagged: The Journals […]

“Someone out in a blizzard dressed in the lightest summer clothes is not as exposed as one who wills to be a solitary human being in a world where everything is alliance and accordingly, with the selfishness of the alliance, demands that one ally oneself with it until the individual protects himself against several alliances [...] […]

“Now in case a man were able to maintain himself upon the pinnacle of the instant choice, in case he could cease to be a man, in case he were in his inmost nature only an airy thought, in case personality meant nothing more than to be a kobold, which takes part indeed in the [...] […]