The Kierkegaarden

“When Socrates believed that there was a God, he held fast to the objective uncertainty with the whole passion of his inwardness, and it is precisely in this contradiction and in this risk, that faith is rooted. Now it is otherwise. Instead of the objective uncertainty, there is here a certainty, namely, that objectively it is absurd; and this absurdity held fast in the passion of inwardness, is faith. The Socratic ignorance is like a witty jest in comparison with the earnestness of facing the absurd; and the Socratic existential inwardness is like Greek lightmindedness in comparison with the grave strenuosity of faith.”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard

“Philosophy teaches that the way is to become objective, while Christianity teaches that the way is to become subjective, i.e. to become a subject in truth. Lest this should seem a mere dispute about words, let me say that Christianity wishes to intensify passion to its highest pitch; but passion is subjectivity, and does not exist objectively.”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postcript (1846)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard ——————————————————–

“Persistent striving is the ethical life view of the existing subject.”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard

“When Socrates believed that there was a God, he held fast to the objective uncertainty with the whole passion of his inwardness, and it is precisely in this contradiction and in this risk, that faith is rooted. Now it is otherwise. Instead of the objective uncertainty, there is here a certainty, namely, that objectively it is absurd; and this absurdity held fast in the passion of inwardness, is faith. The Socratic ignorance is like a witty jest in comparison with the earnestness of facing the absurd; and the Socratic existential inwardness is like Greek lightmindedness in comparison with the grave strenuosity of faith.”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard

“Persistent striving is the ethical life view of the existing subject.”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard

“What the conception of God or an eternal happiness is to effect in the individual is, that he transform his entire existence in relation thereto, and this transformation is a process of dying away from the immediate. This is slowly brought about, but finally he will feel himself confined within the absolute conception of God; for the absolute conception of God does not consist in having such a conception en passant, but consists in having the absolute conception at every moment.”
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