“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)
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“Aye, just as it must be terrible for one who is thought to be dead while he still lives, and has the power of sensation, and can hear what those present say about him, but is unable in any way to express that he is still alive, so also for the religious individual is the suffering of his annihilation a fearful thing, when he has the absolute conception present with him in his nothingness, but no mutuality.”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To The “Philosophical Fragments” (1846)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus

“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

“Is not ‘bad’ an ethical category? What is the implication involved in
speaking of a bad infinite? The implication is that I told some person
responsible for refusing to end the infinite reflective process. And this
means, does it not, that I require him to do something? But as a genuinely
speculative philosopher I assume, on the contrary, that reflection ends
itself. If that is the case, why do I make any demand upon the thinker? And
what is it that I require of him? I ask him for a resolve.”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To The “Philosophical Fragments”
Author: Soren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus (1846)

“When the religious speaker, in explaining that a man can do nothing of
himself, sets something wholly particular in relation to this principle, he
gives the auditor occasion to secure a profound insight into his own inmost
heart, helps him to penetrate the delusions and illusions, so as to lay
aside at least for a moment the bourgeois, small-town, sugar-coating in
which he otherwise goes wrapped. Essentially, the religious orator operates by
referring finally to the absolute relationship, that a man can do nothing
of himself; but he makes the transition by means of particulars which he
brings into connection with it.”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To The “Philosophical Fragments”
Author: Soren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus (1846)

“Aye, just as it must be terrible for one who is thought to be dead while he still lives, and has the power of sensation, and can hear what those present say about him, but is unable in any way to express that he is still alive, so also for the religious individual is the suffering of his annihilation a fearful thing, when he has the absolute conception present with him in his nothingness, but no mutuality.”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To The “Philosophical Fragments” (1846)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus

“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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