“In resignation I make renunciation of everything; this movement I make by myself, and if I do not make it, it is because I am cowardly and effeminate and without enthusiasm and do not feel the significance of the lofty dignity which is assigned to every man, that of being his own censor, which is a far prouder title than that of Censor General to the whole Roman Republic. This movement I make by myself, and what I gain is myself in my eternal consciousness, in blissful agreement with my love for the Eternal Being.” ——————————————————– ~Source: Fear And Trembling (1843) Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes De Silentio
February 22
February 22, 2009 at 7:15 am (Blooms)
Tags: Fear and Trembling, Johannes De Silentio
“In resignation I make renunciation of everything; this movement I make by myself, and if I do not make it, it is because I am cowardly and effeminate and without enthusiasm and do not feel the significance of the lofty dignity which is assigned to every man, that of being his own censor, which is a far prouder title than that of Censor General to the whole Roman Republic. This movement I make by myself, and what I gain is myself in my eternal consciousness, in blissful agreement with my love for the Eternal Being.” ——————————————————– ~Source: Fear And Trembling (1843) Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes De Silentio
February 16
February 16, 2009 at 6:36 am (Blooms)
Tags: Fear and Trembling, Johannes De Silentio
“So for the first thing, the knight will have power to concentrate the whole content of life and the whole significance of reality into a single wish. If a man lacks this concentration, this intensity, if his soul from the beginning is dispersed in the multifarious, he never comes to the point of making the movement; he will deal shrewdly in life like the capitalists who invest their money in all sorts of securities, so as to gain on the one what they lose on the other — in short, he is not a knight at all.”
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~Source: Fear And Trembling (1843)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes De Silentio
September 22
September 22, 2008 at 5:55 am (Blooms)
Tags: Fear and Trembling, Johannes De Silentio
“The ethical expression for [Abraham's] relation to Isaac is that the father must love the son. The ethical relation is reduced to the relative in contradistinction to the absolute relation to God. To the question ‘Why?’ Abraham has no other answer than that it is an ordeal, a temptation that, as noted above, is a synthesis of its being for the sake of God and for his own sake… For instance, if we see someone doing something that does not conform to the universal, we say that he is hardly doing it for God’s sake, meaning thereby that he is doing it for his own sake. The paradox of faith has lost the intermediary, that is, the universal. On the one side, it has the expression of the highest egotism, on the other side, the expression for the most absolute devotion, to do it for God’s sake. Faith itself cannot be mediated into the universal, for thereby it is canceled. Faith is this paradox, and the single individual cannot make himself understandable to anyone.”
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~Source: Fear and Trembling (1843)
Author: Sren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio
September 11
September 11, 2008 at 7:28 am (Blooms)
Tags: A Dialectical Lyric, Fear and Trembling, Johannes De Silentio
“In the infinite resignation there is peace and rest; every man who will, who has not abased himself by scorning himself (which is still more dreadful than being proud) can train himself to make these movements. Johannes De Silentio is that shirt we read about in the old fable. The thread is spun under tears, the cloth bleached with tears, the shirt sewn with tears; but then too it is a better protection than iron and steel. The imperfection in the fable is that a third party can manufacture this shirt. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself, and the astonishing thing is that a man can sew it fully as well as a woman.”
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~Source: Fear And Trembling: A Dialectical Lyric (1843)
Author: Soren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes De Silentio
September 06
September 6, 2008 at 7:11 am (Blooms)
Tags: A Dialectical Lyric, Fear and Trembling, Johannes De Silentio
“In the infinite resignation there is peace and rest; every man who will, who has not abased himself by scorning himself (which is still more dreadful than being proud) can train himself to make these movements. The infinite resignation is that shirt we read about in the old fable. The thread is spun under tears, the cloth bleached with tears, the shirt sewn with tears; but then too it is a better protection than iron and steel. The imperfection in the fable is that a third party can manufacture this shirt. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself, and the astonishing thing is that a man can sew it fully as well as a woman.”
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~Source: Fear And Trembling: A Dialectical Lyric (1843)
Author: Soren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes De Silentio
August 17
August 17, 2008 at 10:11 am (Blooms)
Tags: Fear and Trembling, Johannes De Silentio
“…He who loves God without faith reflects upon himself; he who loves God in faith reflects upon God.”
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~Source: Fear and Trembling (1843)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio
Aug 3
August 3, 2008 at 6:51 am (Blooms)
Tags: A Dialectical Lyric, Fear and Trembling, Johannes De Silentio
“Fools and young men prate about everything being possible for a man. That, however, is a great error. Spiritually speaking, everything is possible, but in the world of the finite there is much which is not possible. This impossible, however, the knight makes possible by expressing it spiritually, but he expresses it spiritually by waiving his claim to it. The wish which would carry him into reality, but was wrecked upon the impossibility, is now bent inward, but it is not therefore lost, neither is it forgotten.”
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~Source: Fear And Trembling: A Dialectical Lyric ( 1843 )
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes De Silentio
July 10
July 10, 2008 at 7:07 am (Blooms)
Tags: Dialectical Lyric, Fear and Trembling, Johannes De Silentio
“However, in our time people concern themselves rather little about making pure movements. In case one who was about to learn to dance were to say, ‘For centuries now one generation after another has been learning positions, it is high time I drew some advantage out of this and began straightway with the French dances’–then people will laugh at him; but in the world of spirit they find this exceedingly plausible. What is education? I should suppose that education was the curriculum one had to run through in order to catch up with oneself, and he who will not pass through this curriculum is helped very little by the fact that he was born in the most enlightened age.” ——————————————————– ~Source: Fear And Trembling: A Dialectical Lyric (1843) Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes De Silentio
June 1
June 1, 2008 at 8:50 am (Blooms)
Tags: A Dialectical Lyric, Fear and Trembling, Johannes De Silentio
“Fools and young men prate about everything being possible for a man. That, however, is a great error. Spiritually speaking, everything is possible, but in the world of the finite there is much which is not possible. This impossible, however, the knight makes possible by expressing it spiritually, but he expresses it spiritually by waiving his claim to it. The wish which would carry him into reality, but was wrecked upon the impossibility, is now bent inward, but it is not therefore lost, neither is it forgotten.”
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~Source: Fear And Trembling: A Dialectical Lyric (1843)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes De Silentio
