The Kierkegaarden

“Everyone takes his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclosed deeply within me while my laughter entertains everyone. If I see someone suffer I give him my sympathy, console him as best I can, and listen to him calmly when he assures me that I am fortunate. If I can only keep this up until the day I die I shall have had my revenge.”
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~Source: The Journals (1837)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard

“Every step it takes, philosophy casts a slough and into it creep the more foolish adherents.”
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~Source: The Journals (1837)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard

“There is an indescribable joy that is kindled in us just as inexplicably as the apostle’s unmotivated exclamation: ‘Rejoice, and again I say, Rejoice’. — Not a joy over this or that, but a full-bodied shout of the soul ‘with tongue and mouth and from the bottom of the heart’: ‘I rejoice in my joy, of, with, at, for, through, and with my joy’ — a heavenly refrain which suddenly interrupts our other songs, a joy which like a breath of air cools and refreshes, a puff from the trade winds which blow across the plains of Mamre to the eternal mansions.”
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~Source: The Journals (1838)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard

“Can the transition from a quantitative to a qualitative determination occur without a leap? And doesn’t all of life lie in this?”
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~Source: The Journals (1842-43)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard

“Just as in a case of herrings, the top layer is crushed and spoilt, and the fruit next to the crate is bruised and worthless, so too in every generation there are certain men who are on the outside and are made to suffer from the packing case, who only protect those who are in the middle.”
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~Source: The Journals (1845)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard

“So and so many children are baptised every year, so many confirmed, so and so many study theology; there are a thousand parsons, professors of theology, bishops, deans, churchwardens, sextons and under-sextons: everything is as it should be — if only Christianity existed.”
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~Source: The Journals (1850)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard

“Oh, the sins of passion and of the heart — how much nearer to salvation than the sins of reason!”
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~Source: The Journals (18??)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard

“It is so impossible for the world to exist without God that if God could forget it it would instantly cease to be.”
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~Source: The Journals (1837)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard

“Adversity doesn’t just knit people together but elicits also that beautiful inner community, as the frost forms patterns on the windowpane which the warmth of the sun then erases.” ——————————————————– ~Source: The Journals (1835) Author: Søren Kierkegaard

“Finally, there is one thing to remember — that my original thought must still be subject to a certain control. How many times have I said this, that a warship does not get its orders until it is at sea,…” ——————————————————– ~Source: The Journals (1849) Author: Søren Kierkegaard