“Who is there that knows the happy instant, who has comprehended the delight of it and has not sensed that dread lest something might suddenly occur, the most insignificant thing, yet with power to disturb it all! Who has held in his hand the magic lamp and yet not felt that swooning of delight at the thought that one only needs to wish? Who has held in his hand that which beckons and has not learned to keep his wrist supple so as to let it go at once?” —— ~Source: Stages On Life’s Way: Studies By Sundry Persons (1845) Author: Soren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Hilarius Bookbinder
September 04
September 4, 2008 at 7:32 am (Blooms)
Tags: Hilarius Bookbinder, Stages on Life's Way, Studies By Sundry Persons
August 16
August 16, 2008 at 7:14 am (Blooms)
Tags: Hilarius Bookbinder, Stages on Life's Way, Studies By Sundry Persons (1845)
“Constantine had it in mind that, driving thither in the dusk of the evening, they might get an inkling of what was coming. Even though one knows that one is driving to a banquet, and imagination endeavors for an instant to deal with the voluptuous thought, the impression made by natural surroundings is so powerful that it must prevail. That this might occur was Constantine’s only fear; for while there is no power which knows so well how to beautify all things as does imagination, neither is there any power which can so profoundly disturb everything when it fails one upon coming into contact with real life.”
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~Source: Stages On Life’s Way: Studies By Sundry Persons (1845)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Hilarius Bookbinder
June 09
June 9, 2008 at 11:06 am (Blooms)
Tags: Stages on Life's Way
“It was about ten o’clock in the evening of one of the last days of July when the participators assembled for that banquet. I have forgotten the day of the month and even the year; such things are the concern of memory, not of recollection. The only thing that properly concerns recollection is mood and what pertains to mood; and just as a generous wine gains by passing over the line because the watery particles evaporate, so too does recollection gain by losing the watery particles of memory — yet by this the recollection no more becomes a mere fancy than does the generous wine.”
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~Source: Stages on Life’s Way (1845)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Hilarius Bookbinder
