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1. "Once you label me you negate me." ~ SOREN KIERKEGAARD

2. "If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe." ~ SOREN KIERKEGAARD

3. "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." ~ SOREN KIERKEGAARD

4. "God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners." ~ SOREN KIERKEGAARD

5. "Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

6. "A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself. A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two. Considered in this way a human being is still not a self.... In the relation between two, the relation is the third as a negative unity, and the two relate to the relation and in the relation to the relation; thus under the qualification of the psychical the relation between the psychical and the physical is a relation. If, however, the relation relates itself to itself, this relation is the positive third, and this is the self." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

7. "to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

8. "On principle' one can do anything and what one does is, fundamentally, a matter of indifference, just as a man's life remains insignificant even though 'on principle' he gives his support to all the 'needs of the times." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

9. "People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

10. "It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, "No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

11. "Oleminen ei ole mukavuuskysymys." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

12. "Tyhmät ja touhukkaat ihmiset kuvittelevat, että he toimivat ja toimivat ja toimivat. Sen sijaan käy suorastaan tietynlaisten älypäiden tunnusmerkistä se taituruus, jota osoittaen he välttävät toimimisen." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

13. "Het is allemaal waar wat de filosofie zegt: het leven moet achterwaarts worden begrepen. Maar dan vergeet men de tweede zin: dat het voorwaarts moet worden geleefd." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

14. "Y la esperanza va ensanchando por momentos su ciclo sobre mí, y una imagen, su imagen, pasa vagamente por el éter, como la luna, a veces cegándome de luz ya veces cegándome de sombras." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

15. "kai Dievas savo visagaliu apsisprendimu <...>, kuris yra tarsi jo meile, nori buti lygus paciam menkiausiam, tai nei smukles šeimininkas, nei filosofijos profesorius lai neisikala i galva, kad jie tokie gudrus vaikinai, kad gali ka nors pastebeti, jei Dievas pats nesuteikia salygos. (92-93)" ~ Søren Kierkegaard

16. "Kazna odgovara krivici: da nam bude uskraceno svako zadovoljstvoživljenja, da smo dovedeni do najvišeg stepena odvratnosti prema životu." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

17. "It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

18. "A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

19. "Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

20. "My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

21. "I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

22. "I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

23. "I stick my finger in existence — it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? How came I here? What is this thing called the world? What does this world mean? Who is it that has lured me into the world? Why was I not consulted, why not made acquainted with its manners and customs instead of throwing me into the ranks, as if I had been bought by a kidnapper, a dealer in souls? How did I obtain an interest in this big enterprise they call reality? Why should I have an interest in it? Is it not a voluntary concern? And if I am to be compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I should like to make a remark to him. Is there no director? Whither shall I turn with my complaint?" ~ Søren Kierkegaard

24. "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." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

25. "My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

26. "Sleeping is the height of genius" ~ Søren Kierkegaard

27. "Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

28. "The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of ‘the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

29. "Birkaç aglama nöbetinin ardindan simdi su dingin ruh haliyle ne kadar güzellesti. Varligi hüzünle acinin güzel bir uyumu" ~ Søren Kierkegaard

30. "The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect he is... To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

31. "For the universal will constantly torture him and say, 'You ought to have talked. Where will you find the certainty that it was not after all a hidden pride which governed your resolution?" ~ Søren Kierkegaard

32. "Siapakah penyair? Seseorang yang tidak bahagia yang menyembunyikan kesedihan yang sangat mendalam di dalam hatinya, tapi bibirnya berbentuk sedemikian rupa, sehingga desakan dan tangisan yang melaluinya terdengar seperti musik yang indah." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

33. "If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?" ~ Søren Kierkegaard

34. "A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

35. "When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

36. "Raskain rangaistus on nimenomaan muisto." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

37. "Petoksen olemassaolo on samalla alituinen mahdollisuus totuuden näkemiseen." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

38. "Intohimo ei merkitse sanoja." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

39. "Naisissa tapaa usein huumoria, mutta ei koskaan ironiaa.Puhdas naisellinen luonto pitää ironiaa jonkinlaisena julmuutena." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

40. "I shall be your poet! I do not want to be a poet for others; make your appearance, and I shall be your poet. I shall eat my own poem, and that will be my food. Or do you find me unworthy? Just as a temple dancer dances to the honor of the god Gudutl, so I have consecrated myself to your service; light, thinly clad, limber, unarmed, I renounce everything. I own nothing; I desire to own nothing; I love nothing; I have nothing to lose-but have I not thereby become more worthy of you, you who long ago must have been tired of depriving people of what they love, tired of their craven sniveling and craven pleading. Surprise me-I am ready" ~ Søren Kierkegaard

41. "No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual..." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

42. "To have distinctiveness is to believe in the distinctiveness of everyone else, because distinctiveness is not mine but is God's gift by which he gives being to me, and he indeed gives to all, gives being to all. (p. 271)" ~ Søren Kierkegaard

43. "Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

44. "Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

45. "if god loves me, he is my mortal enemy" ~ Søren Kierkegaard

46. "You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

47. "Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

48. "In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

49. "The majority enjoy a young girl as they enjoy a glass of champagne, at one effervescent moment-oh, yes, that is really beautiful, and with many a young girl that is undoubtedly the most one can attain, but here there is more. If an individual is too fragile to stand clarity and transparency, well, then one enjoys what is unclear, but apparently she can stand it. The more devotedness one can bring to erotic love, the more interesting. This momentary enjoyment is a rape, even if not outwardly but nevertheless mentally, and in a rape there is only imagined enjoyment; it is like a stolen kiss, something nondescript. No, if one can bring it to a point where a girl has but one task for her freedom, to give herself, so that she feels her whole happiness in this, so that she practically begs for this devotedness and yet is free-only then is there enjoyment, but this always takes a discerning touch" ~ Søren Kierkegaard

50. "Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

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