Soren Kierkegaard

Name: THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH - S. Kierkegaard
ISBN: 9786558943402

Philosopher

1813-05-05 – 1855-11-11

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher and theologian often regarded as a foundational figure in existential thought. His writings examined faith, anxiety, choice, and individual responsibility. Major works include Either/Or and Fear and Trembling.

Books by Soren Kierkegaard

Fear and Trembling
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FEAR AND TREMBLING - S. Kierkegaard
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THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH - S. Kierkegaard
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Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

A person who speaks like a book is exceedingly boring to listen to; sometimes, however, it is not inappropriate to talk in that way. For a book has the remarkable property that it can be interpreted any way you wish. If one talks like a book one's conversation acquires this property too. I kept quite soberly to the usual formulas. She was surprised, as I'd expected; that can't be denied. To describe to myself how she looked is difficult. She seemed multifaceted; yes just about like the still to be published but announced commentary to my book, a commentary capable of any interpretation. One word and she would have laughed at me; another and she would have been moved; still another and she would have shunned me; but no such word came to my lips. I remained solemnly unemotional and kept to the ritual.― "She had known me for such a short time', dear God, it's only on the strait path of engagement one meets such difficulties, not the primrose path of love."―from_Either/Or: A Fragment of Life_. Abridged, Translated and with an Introduction and Notes by Alastair Hannay, p. 312
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A person who speaks like a book is exceedingly boring to listen to; sometimes, however, it is not inappropriate to talk in that way. For a book has the remarkable property that it can be interpreted any way you wish. If one talks like a book one's conversation acquires this property too. I kept quite soberly to the usual formulas. She was surprised, as I'd expected; that can't be denied. To describe to myself how she looked is difficult. She seemed multifaceted; yes just about like the still to be published but announced commentary to my book, a commentary capable of any interpretation. One word and she would have laughed at me; another and she would have been moved; still another and she would have shunned me; but no such word came to my lips. I remained solemnly unemotional and kept to the ritual.― "She had known me for such a short time', dear God, it's only on the strait path of engagement one meets such difficulties, not the primrose path of love."―from_Either/Or: A Fragment of Life_. Abridged, Translated and with an Introduction and Notes by Alastair Hannay, p. 312
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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Don't forget to love yourself.
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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
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