Quotes from Soren Kierkegaard

If a man in truth wills the Good then he must be willing to suffer all for the Good.

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.

Y ahora, un poco de paciencia, sin apremios: me la han destinado y algún día me pertenecerá.

People say the good Lord fills the stomach before the eyes. I haven't noticed; my eyes have had enough and I am weary of everything, and yet I hunger.

every actual instant of despair is to be referred back to possibility, every instant the man in despair is contracting it, it is constantly in the present tense, nothing comes to pass here as a consequence of a bygone actuality superseded. at every actual instant of despair the despairer bears as his responsibility all the foregoing experience in possibility as a present.

For my part I can in a way understand Abraham, but at the same time I apprehend that I have not the courage to speak, and still less to act as he did — but by this I do not by any means intend to say that what he did was insignificant, for on the contrary it is the one only marvel.

The way of objective reflection turns the individual into something accidental, and thus turns existence into an indifferent, vanishing something.

Zealousness to learn from life is seldom found, but all the more frequently a desire, inclination, and reciprocal haste to be deceived by life.

Mutismul cel mai sigur nu-i s? taci, ci s? vorbe?ti.

My views are the fleeting observations of a 'travelling scholar'9 rushing through life in the greatest haste. People say the good Lord fills the stomach before the eyes. I haven't noticed; my eyes have had enough and I am weary of everything, and yet I hunger.

The best proof adduced of the wretchedness of life is that derived from contemplating its glory.

words, rejecting the doctrine of sin

De esta manera el cristianismo tiene siempre consuelo, y su consuelo se distingue de todo consuelo humano en que este siempre es consciente de ser únicamente una compensación por la pérdida de la alegría: el consuelo cristiano es la alegría.

They make Christ a speculative unity of God and man; or they throw Christ away altogether and take His teaching; or for sheer seriousness they make Christ a false god. Spirit is the negation of direct immediacy. If Christ is very God, He must also be unrecognizable, He must assume recognizableness, which is the negation of all directness. Direct recognizableness is precisely the characteristic of the pagan god.

By faith he was a stranger in the land of promise, and there was nothing to recall what was dear to him, but by its novelty everything tempted his soul to melancholy yearning — and yet he was God's elect, in whom the Lord was well pleased!

What is certain is that to become of interest, for one's life to be interesting, has nothing to do with what you can turn your hand to but is a fateful privilege which, like every privilege in the world of spirit, can only be purchased in deep pain.

Pues amar a Dios significa amarse de verdad a uno mismo; ayudar a otro ser humano a que ame a Dios es amar a otro ser humano; ser ayudado por otro ser humano para amar a Dios significa ser amado.

Det er ingen kunst at forføre en pige, men en lykke at finde én, der er værd at forføre.

The one knight of faith can render no aid to the other.

for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself, he who loves God believingly reflects upon God. Upon

Either the individual becomes a knight of faith by assuming the burden of the paradox, or he never becomes one.

Hablando en términos humanos, amar es seguir la representación que el amado se haya formado acerca de lo que es el amor, y haciéndolo uno será amado.

Truth is not a sum of statements, not a definition, not a system of concepts, but a life.

He writes because for him doing so is a luxury, the more agreeable and conspicuous the fewer who but and read what he writes.