“To believe is to believe the divine and the human together in Christ. To comprehend him is to comprehend his life humanly. But to comprehend his life humanly is so far from being more than believing that it means to lose him if there is not believing in addition, since his life is what it is for faith, the divine-human. I can understand myself in believing. I can understand myself in believing, although in addition I can in a relative misunderstanding comprehend the human aspect of this life: but comprehend faith or comprehend Christ, I cannot. On the contrary, I can understand that to be able to comprehend his life in every aspect is the most absolute and also the most blasphemous misunderstanding.”
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~Source: Two Ethical-Religious Essays: “Does a Human Being Have the Right to Let Himself Be Put to Death for the Truth?” (1849)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym H. H.
