Quotes About Authenticity

What philosophers say about actuality [Virkelighed] is often just as disappointing as it is when one reads on a sign in a secondhand shop: Pressing Done Here. If a person were to bring his clothes to be pressed, he would be duped, for the sign is merely for sale.

Therefore, truth is not a matter of knowing this or that but of being in the truth.

Sin is: in despair not wanting to be oneself before God.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard, nor read about, nor seen, but, if one will, are to be lived.

What shall it profit the sick man to imagine himself, as all men do, to be well, if the physician says he is sick!

I would rather be a swineherd at Amagerbro and be understood by the swine than be a poet and be misunderstood by people.

For every single individual who escapes into the crowd... flees in cowardice from being a single individual.

Oleminen ei ole mukavuuskysymys.

Subjectivity is truth

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

for the paradox is that he as the individual puts himself in an absolute relation to the absolute.

Nobody knows more of the truth than what he is of the truth. To properly know the truth is to be in the truth; it is to have the truth for one's life. This always costs a struggle. Any other kind of knowledge is a falsification. In short, the truth, if it is really there, is a being, a life.

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. ~ Søren Kierkegaard

Mi tarea consiste en poner freno a una difusión mentirosa del Cristianismo y en ayudarle al Cristianismo a sacudirse de una masa de Cristianos nominales.

Quise mantener mi sufrimiento oculto para entonces embellecer la vida a los demás.

But one thing I will not do; no, not for anything in the world: I will not, though it were merely with the last quarter of the last joint of my little finger, I will not take part in what is known as official Christianity, which by suppression and by artifice gives the impression of being the Christianity of the New Testament; and upon my knees I thank my God that He has compassionately prevented me from becoming too far embroiled in it.

If he is not supposed to be that, then he is a hypocrite, and the higher he climbs on this path, the more dreadful a hypocrite he is.

None has more contempt for what it is to be a man than they who make it their profession to lead the crowd.

Oh, to what degree human beings would become—human and lovable beings—if they would become single individuals before God!

Järjestelmään liittyy sulkeutuvuus, mutta olemassaolo on jotakin täsmälleen päinvastaista.

Wat voor goed zou het me doen als de waarheid voor me stond, koud en naakt, en er niet om gaf of ze door mij werd herkend of niet.

Cuando un hombre habla como un libro impreso, es aburrido escucharle, pero a menudo es muy útil hablar de este modo.

Surrounded by hordes of people, busy with all sorts of secular matters, more and more shrewd about the ways of the world – such a person forgets himself, forgets his name divinely understood, does not dare to believe in himself, finds it too risky to be himself, far easier and safer to be like the others, to become a copy, a number, part of the crowd.

People who never cried were the weakest of all.