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«Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
as such, contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, eternal, fullest, requires, The Eternal
«The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is sure to be noticed.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
arm, dollars, etc., etc, every other, leg, losing, loss, noticed, pass off, quietly
«Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Patience
| Keywords:
immediately, reap, sown
«Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
chokes, deliberates, deliberation, deliberations, desperation, literally, nowadays, questionable
«It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
compassionate, counsels, eliminate, fatten, fattened, fattening, fattens, huckster, hucksters, induce, inducing, ingenious, nourished, ranks, self confidence, surrender, yielded
«Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
dismay, dismaying, flies, frightened, heavenly, let fly, sleep with, wakes, waking
«Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Adversity
| Keywords:
draws, ice, pane, panes, produces, Relationships, vanish, warmth, winter
«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.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
embryo, Embryos, exposed, grandiose, in embryo, paradox, paradoxes, pathos, thinker
«I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
chess, chess game, If I were a, opponent
«At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness -- not crimes and scandals.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
intrigue, intriguing, involve, official, scandals, sleepless, vigorous
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