. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety. Because it remains silent. His psychological work explored the emotions and feelings of individuals when faced with life choices.Kierkegaard's early work was written under the various pseudonyms that he used to present distinctive viewpoints and to interact with each other in complex dialogue. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Quotes By Søren Kierkegaard. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.“, „The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.“, „In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.“, „Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, that all love like all knowledge is remembrance, that love too has its prophecies in the individual.“, „What the age needs is not a genius — it has had geniuses enough, but a martyr, who in order to teach men to obey would himself be obedient unto death. A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. When you think you see it, it is a reflection that deceives you, as if what only hides the deeper ground were itself the ground.”, “All distinctions between the many different kinds of love are essentially abolished by Christianity.”, “salvation consists primarily in his beginning to sorrow earnestly over himself!”. For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God. As the calm lake stems darkly from the deep spring, so a person's love originate mysteriously in God's. Source: The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening. All Quotes Much of his work deals with Christian love. The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live. It is the relation between spirit and something else that is not spirit and to which fate nevertheless stands in a spiritual relation. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God. To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God. Søren Kierkegaard, Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together. Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this? Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. Join us. “Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. %PDF-1.6
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There is a mistake in the text of this quote. And therefore someday, not only my writings but my whole life, all the intriguing mystery of the machine will be studied and studied. No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over. He was extremely critical of the practice of Christianity as a state religion, primarily that of the Church of Denmark.