Søren Kierkegaard Zitate: 39 Weisheiten über das Leben, die Freiheit und das Wesen des Menschen

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„Verstehen kann man das Leben rückwärts; leben muß man es aber vorwärts.“

Søren Kierkegaard

„Es ist ganz wahr, was die Philosophie sagt, daß das Leben rückwärts verstanden werden muß. Aber darüber vergißt man den andern Satz, daß vorwärts gelebt werden muß.“

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Die Tagebücher. Deutsch von Theodor Haecker. Brenner-Verlag 1923, S. 203 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=8D-ehrAsTPAC&q=r%C3%BCckw%C3%A4rts "Det er ganske sandt, hvad Philosophien siger, at Livet maa forstaaes baglaends. Men derover glemmer man den anden Saetning, at det maa leves forlaends." - 1843, Journalen JJ 167, Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter 18: Journalerne EE, FF, GG, HH, JJ, KK. Søren Kierkegaard Forskningscenteret, 2001, S. 194, books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=w-rWAAAAMAAJ&q=bagl%C3%A6nds
Tagebücher 1834–1855

„Das Leben ist kein zu lösendes Problem, sondern eine zu erlebende Realität.“

Søren Kierkegaard

„Die Menschen fordern Redefreiheit als Ausgleich für die Gedankenfreiheit, die sie selten nutzen.“

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„Es gibt zwei Möglichkeiten, sich täuschen zu lassen. Man soll glauben, was nicht wahr ist; Das andere ist, sich zu weigern zu glauben, was wahr ist.“

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Zitate über Leben von Søren Kierkegaard

„Es gilt, eine Wahrheit zu finden, die Wahrheit für mich ist, die Idee zu entdecken, für die ich leben und sterben will.“

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1. Aug. 1835, zitiert in: Die Leidenschaft des Religiösen, Lieselotte Richter (Hrsg.), Reclam Verlag, Ditzingen, 1968, Einleitung S. 4 "Det [...] gjælder om at finde en Sandhed, som er Sandhed for mig, at finde den Idee, for hvilken jeg vil leve og døe." - Journalen AA, http://www.sk.ku.dk/sks17.asp
Tagebücher 1834–1855

„Die Sorge ist das Verhältnis zum Leben.“

Søren Kierkegaard buch Die Krankheit zum Tode

Die Krankheit zum Tode Original dän.: "Bekymringen er Forholdet til Livet [...]."]
Die Krankheit zum Tode

„Für drei Dinge danke ich Gott - 1) Daß kein lebendes Wesen mir sein Dasein verdankt […].“

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13. Dez. 1854, von Karl Kraus zitiert in "Die Fackel" Band 27, S. 26, books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=YoMsAQAAIAAJ&q=Dasein+verdankt " For tre Ting takker jeg Gud / 1) At intet levende Væsen skylder mig Tilværelse." - Journalerne NB31-NB36. København Gad 2009, S. 416 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=WzdRAAAAYAAJ&q=skylder
Tagebücher 1834–1855

Zitate über Menschen von Søren Kierkegaard

„Ich sehe mich zuweilen umgeben von einer greulich phrasenhaften Gestalt - ich möchte sie ein Kompendium eines Menschen nennen - einen kurzen Inbegriff - einen beliebig langen dünnen Mann, den jedoch die Natur gleichsam bei jedem Fortschritt aufgehalten hat […] und jede Rede beginnt er mit einem vielversprechenden Vordersatz, so dass man in der Hoffnung bereits einen ungeheuren Maßstab anlegt, aber siehe, es kommt zu nichts.“

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Pap. II A 609

„Die Menschen haben, wie es scheint, die Sprache nicht empfangen, um die Gedanken zu verbergen, sondern um zu verbergen, daß sie keine Gedanken haben.“

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„Was ist ein Dichter? Ein unglücklicher Mensch, der heiße Schmerzen in seinem Herzen trägt, dessen Lippen aber so geartet sind, daß, während Seufzer und Geschrei ihnen entströmen, diese dem fremden Ohr wie schöne Musik ertönen..“

Søren Kierkegaard buch Entweder – Oder

Entweder - Oder, 1. Teil zeno. org

zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20009194533 Original dän.: "Hvad er en Digter? Et ulykkeligt Menneske, der gjemmer dybe Qvaler i sit hjerte, men vis Læber ere dannede saaledes, at idet Sukket og Skriget strømme ud over dem, lyde de som en skjøn Musik."
Entweder - Oder

„Der Freiheit Inhalt, intellektuell gesehen, ist Wahrheit, und die Wahrheit macht den Menschen frei. Eben darum aber ist die Wahrheit ein Werk der Freiheit dergestalt, dass sie fort und fort die Wahrheit erzeugt.“

Søren Kierkegaard buch Der Begriff Angst

Der Begriff Angst, Werke I. In neuer Übertragung und mit Kommentar von Liselotte Richter, Rowohlt Klassiker/ RK 71

Søren Kierkegaard Zitate und Sprüche

„Es ist keine Kunst, ein Mädchen zu verführen, aber ein Glück, eines zu finden, das es wert ist, verführt zu werden.“

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Tagebuch des Verführers zeno. org

Original dän.: "[D]et er ingen Kunst at forføre en Pige, men en Lykke at finde En, der er vært at forføre."

Über Glück , Mädchen , Über Kunst

„Je weniger Geist, desto weniger Angst.“

Søren Kierkegaard buch Der Begriff Angst

Der Begriff Angst (Original dän.: "[J]o mindre Aand jo mindre Angest."}
Der Begriff Angst

Über Angst

„Nie lasse man sich auf eine Ehe ein. Die Eheleute geloben einander »auf ewig« Liebe. Wenn die Betreffenden stattdessen »bis Ostern« sagten, sagten sie etwas, was man vielleicht halten könnte.“

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Über Liebe , Über Ehe

„Die Funktion des Gebets besteht nicht darin, Gott zu beeinflussen, sondern die Natur des Betenden zu verändern.“

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Über Gott , Über natur

„Das Vergleichen ist das Ende des Glücks und der Anfang der Unzufriedenheit.“

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Über Glück

„Nach Veränderung rufen alle, die sich langweilen.“

Søren Kierkegaard buch Entweder – Oder

Entweder - Oder, 1. Teil zeno. org

zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20009194746 Original dän.: "Paa Forandring raaber Alle, der kjede sig."
Entweder - Oder

Veränderung

„Die Christenheit hat, ohne es recht selber zu merken, das Christentum abgeschafft; daraus ergibt sich, daß, wenn etwas geschehen soll, versucht werden muß, das Christentum wieder in die Christenheit einzuführen.“

Søren Kierkegaard

Einübung im Christentum, Werke Bd. 12 S. 52f.

Über Ehe

„Aber Existieren ist etwas ganz anderes als Wissen.“

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Concluding Unscientific Postscript

Wissen

„Der Augenblick ist jenes Zweideutige, darin Zeit und Ewigkeit einander berühren.“

Søren Kierkegaard buch Der Begriff Angst

Der Begriff Angst Original dän.: "Øieblikket er hiint Tvetydige, hvori Tiden og Evigheden berøre hinanden [...]."
Der Begriff Angst

Zeit

„Verheirate dich, du wirst es bereuen; verheirate dich nicht, du wirst es auch bereuen.“

Søren Kierkegaard buch Entweder – Oder

Entweder - Oder, 1. Teil zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20009194533 Original dän.: "Gift Dig, Du vil fortryde det; gift Dig ikke, Du vil ogsaa fortryde det [...]." -
Entweder - Oder

„Die Leute verstehen mich so schlecht, dass sie nicht einmal meine Beschwerde verstehen, dass sie mich nicht verstehen.“

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Verstehen

„Die häufigste Form der Verzweiflung ist, nicht zu sein, wer du bist.“

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Verzweiflung

„Dass das Weib sinnlicher ist als der Mann, das zeigt sogleich ihre leibliche Bildung an.“

Søren Kierkegaard buch Der Begriff Angst

Der Begriff Angst Original dän.: "At Qvinden er mere sandselig end Manden, viser strax hendes legemlige Organisation."
Der Begriff Angst

Über Männer , Über Bildung

„Was aber ist denn dies mein Selbst? Wollte ich von einem ersten Augenblick sprechen, einem ersten Ausdruck dafür, so ist meine Antwort: es ist das Abstrakteste von allem, das doch in sich zugleich das Konkreteste von allem ist - es ist die Freiheit.“

Søren Kierkegaard buch Entweder – Oder

Entweder - Oder, 2. Teil zeno. org

Entweder - Oder, 2. Teil zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20009194754 Original dän.: "Men hvad er da dette mit Selv? Dersom jeg vilde tale om et foerste Øieblik, et første Udtryk derfor, saa er mit Svar: det er det Abstrakteste af Alt, der dog tillige i sig er det Concreteste af Alt -- det er Friheden." -
Entweder - Oder

Freiheit

„Was wird geschehen? Was wird die Zukunft bringen? Ich weiß nicht; ich ahne nichts. Wenn eine Spinne sich von einem festen Punkte aus in ihre Konsequenzen hinabstürzt, da sieht sie vor sich beständig einen leeren Raum, in welchem sie nirgends Fuß findet, wie sehr sie auch zappeln mag. Geradeso geht es mir. Vorn immer ein leerer Raum; was mich vorwärts treibt, ist eine Konsequenz, deren erster Anstoß hinter mir liegt. Dieses Leben ist ein verkehrtes und schreckliches, nicht zum Aushalten.“

Søren Kierkegaard buch Entweder – Oder

Entweder - Oder, 1. Teil zeno. org

Entweder - Oder, 1. Teil zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20009194533 Original dän.: "Hvad skal der komme? Hvad skal Fremtiden bringe? Jeg veed det ikke, jeg ahner intet. Naar en Edderkop fra et vast Punkt styrter sig ned i sine Consequentser, da seer den bestandig et tomt Rum foran sig, hvori den ikke kan finde Fodfæste, hvormeget den end sprætter. Saaledes gaaer det mig; hvad der driver meg frem er en Consequents, der ligger bag mig. Dette Liv er bagvendt og rædsomt, ikke til at udholde."
Entweder - Oder

Zukunft , Über Ehe

„Denn wer unendlich resigniert hat, ist sich selber genug.“

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Furcht und Zittern

Original dän.: "[T]hi den, der har resigneret uendeligt, han er sig selv nok."

„Alles ist eine Modesache: Gottesfurcht ist eine Modesache und die Liebe und die Krinoline und ein Ring in der Nase.“

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Stadien auf des Lebens Weg, In vino veritas

Über Liebe

„Sehnsucht ist die Nabelschnur des höheren Lebens.“

Søren Kierkegaard

8. Feb. 1839, in: Buch des Richters - Seine Tagebücher 1833-1855. Im Auszug aus dem Dänischen von Hermann Gottsched, Diederichs, Leipzig 1905. S. 19 "Længsel er det høiere Livs Navlestreng." - Søren Kierkegaards Papirer. Band 2. Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag, 1910, S. 140 books.google.de http://books.google.de/books?id=xssuAQAAIAAJ&q=navlestreng
Tagebücher 1834–1855

Über Bücher

„Fegt mich weg!“

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Letzte Worte, 11. November 1855; zitiert in: Universitas, Band 63, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2008 S. 1098

„Wiederholung und Erinnerung sind die gleiche Bewegung, nur in entgegengesetzter Richtung; denn dasjenige, woran man sich erinnert, ist gewesen, wird rückwärts wiederholt, während die eigentliche Wiederholung eine Erinnerung in vorwärtiger Richtung ist.“

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Erinnerung

„Wenn man die Philosophen von der Wirklichkeit reden hört, so ist das oft ebenso irreführend, wie wenn man im Schaufenster eines Trödlers auf einem Schild die Worte liest: Hier wird gerollt. Wollte man mit seiner Wäsche kommen und sie rollen lassen, so wäre man angeführt. Der Schild hängt nur zum Verkauf da.“

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Wirklichkeit

„Es ist meiner Seele zuwider, das zu tun, was so oft geschieht, nämlich nicht menschlich von dem Großen zu reden, als wären einige Jahrtausende ein ungeheurer Abstand; ich rede am liebsten menschlich davon, als wäre es gestern, und lasse nur die Größe selbst den Abstand sein.“

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Furcht und Zittern, S. 25 http://books.google.com/books?id=ZE8YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25
Furcht und Zittern

Über Liebe , Über Seele

„Aber Humor ist auch die Freude, welche die Welt überwunden hat.“

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Zitiert bei Peter L. Berger, p. 189 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=qOjmBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA189&dq=freude
"Men Humoren er ogsaa den Glæde, der har seiret over Verden." - 1837 / 672 U.D. Papirer, Band 2, Gyldendal 1910, p. 240 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=5PLjrEWC14wC&q=Men+Humoren+er+ogsaa+den+Gl%C3%A6de
Tagebücher 1834–1855

Freude , Über die Welt

„Der schmerzhafteste Zustand des Seins ist das Erinnern an die Zukunft, insbesondere an die, die Sie niemals haben werden.“

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Zukunft

„Zwischen Verstehen und Wollen liegen die Entschuldigungen und Ausflüchte.“

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Verstehen

Diese Übersetzung wartet auf eine Überprüfung. Ist es korrekt?

„Die Bibel ist sehr leicht zu verstehen. Aber wir Christen sind ein Haufen von intriganten Schwindlern. Wir geben vor, sie nicht verstehen zu können, weil wir genau wissen, dass wir, in dem Moment, in dem wir sie verstehen, verpflichtet sind nach ihr zu handeln.“

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Wissen , Verstehen

Søren Kierkegaard: Zitate auf Englisch

“I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.”

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“In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.”

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Quelle: The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

“a. Does a Human Being Have the Right to Let Himself Be Put to Death for the Truth? by H. H.”

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1840s, Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849)

“From the Christian point of view it stands firm that the truly Christian venturing requires probability. p. 101”

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1850s, Judge For Yourselves! 1851 (1876)

“If the ethical – that is, social morality – is the highest … then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.”

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Sören Kierkegaard buch Fear and Trembling

Fear and Trembling, p. 55
1840s, Fear and Trembling (1843)

“A white spot is on the horizon. There it is. A terrible storm is brewing. But no one sees the write spot or has any inkling of what it might mean. But no (this would not be the most terrible situation either), no, there is one person who sees it and knows what it means-but he is a passenger. He has no authority on the ship, can take no action. … The fact that in Christendom there is visible on the horizon a white speck which means that a storm is threatening-this I knew; but, alas, I was an am only a passenger.”

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Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers XI3 B 109 p 178ff (quoted in Kierkegaard’s Way to the Truth by Gergor Malantschuk 1963 Augsburg Publishing House
1850s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1850s

“The person who is going to preach ought to live in the Christian thoughts and ideas: they ought to be his daily life. If so – this is the view of Christianity – then you, too, will have eloquence enough and precisely that which is needed when you speak extemporaneously without specific preparation. However, it is fallacious eloquence if someone, without otherwise occupying himself with, without living in these thoughts, once in a while sits down and laboriously collects such thoughts, perhaps in the field of literature, and then works them into a well-composed discourse, which is then committed to memory and delivered superbly, with respect both to voice and diction and gestures.”

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Sören Kierkegaard buch For Self-Examination

Soren Kierkegaard, For Self-Examination, Hong p. 10
1850s, For Self-Examination (1851), What is Required in Order to Look at Oneself with True Blessing in the Mirror of the Word?

“Posito I assume and when I say posito, I have the right to assume the unlikely; therefore posito, I assume that Mr. A. A., whose promises supposedly have not weakened him, went to work and wrote the system. Posito, I assume, and when I say posito, I have the right to assume what is more unreasonable than the most unreasonable; therefore; posito, I assume that if Mr. A. A. did not write the system, then Mr. B. B. wrote it-then what? Let us linger for a moment on this thought, with which, of course, we have all been familiar for several years: the thought of the prospect for the hope of the system. Therefore, in order to be very brief, posito, I assume that the system appeared here in Copenhagen, then what? Then one would indeed have to read it, unless Mr. C. C. would instantly be kind and philanthropic enough to promise a summary of the system and also position us in the point of view; then we would again be saved by the promise. If this does not happen, then of course one would have to read it. How troublesome, and who would finally benefit from that?”

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Prefaces, Nichol, 1997 p. 39-40
1840s, Prefaces (1844)

“If the genius is an artist, then he accomplishes his work as art, but neither he nor his work of art has a telos outside him.”

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Quelle: 1840s, Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849), P. 108

“There is a contrast of primary significance between Augustine and Pelagius. The former crushes everything in order to rebuild it again. The other addresses himself to man as he is. The first system, therefore, in respect to Christianity, falls into three stages: creation – the fall and a consequent condition of death and impotence; a new creation – whereby man is placed in a position where he can choose; and then, if he chooses – Christianity. The other system addresses itself to man as he is (Christianity fits into the world). From this is seen the significance of the theory of inspiration for the first system; from this also is seen the relationship between the synergistic and the semipelagian conflict. It is the same question, only that the syngeristic struggle has its presupposition in the new creation of the Augustinian system.”

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Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers, Volume 1 Hong translation 1967 p. 14-15 1 A 101 January 14, 1837
1830s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s

“To one unnamed, whose name will one day be named, is dedicated, with this little work, the entire authorship, as it was from the beginning. (Dedication) P. 163”

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1850s, Two Discourses at Friday Communion (August 1851)

“For whoever has what he has from the God himself clearly has it at first hand; and he who does not have it from the God himself is not a disciple. Let us assume that it is otherwise, that the contemporary generation of disciples had received the condition from the God, and that the subsequent generations were to receive it from these contemporaries – what would follow?”

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Quelle: 1840s, Philosophical Fragments (1844), p. 76

“A person can perhaps succeed in hiding his sins from the world, he can perhaps be foolishly happy that he succeeds, or yet, a little more honest, admit that it is a deplorable weakness and cowardliness that he does not have the courage to become open-but a person cannot hide his sins from himself. P. 182”

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1850s, Two Discourses at Friday Communion (August 1851)

“I may live for thirty years, or perhaps forty, or maybe just one day: therefore I have resolved to use this day, or whatever I have to say in these thirty years or whatever I have to say this one day I may have to live — I have resolved to use it in such a way that if not one day in my whole past life has been used well, this one by the help of God will be. JP VIII 1 A 533”

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1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s

“When you are reading God’s Word, it is not the obscure passages that bind you but what you understand, and with that you comply at once. If you understood only one single passage in all of Holy Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all, but you do not first have to sit down and ponder the obscure passages.”

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Soren Kierkegaard, For Self-Examination, Hong p. 29
1850s, For Self-Examination (1851), What is Required in Order to Look at Oneself with True Blessing in the Mirror of the Word?

“I can understand myself in believing, although in addition I can in a relative misunderstanding comprehend the human aspect of this life: but comprehend faith or comprehend Christ, I cannot.”

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Quelle: 1840s, Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849), p. 65

“And how does the God’s existence emerge from the proof? Does it follow straightway, without any breach of continuity? Or have we not here an analogy to the behavior of the little Cartesian dolls? As soon as I let go of the doll it stands on its head. As soon as I let it go – I must therefore let it go. So also with the proof. As long as I keep my hold on the proof, i. e., continue to demonstrate, the existence does not come out, if for no other reason than that I am engaged in proving it; but when I let the proof go, the existence is there. But this act of letting go is surely also something; it is indeed a contribution of mine. Must not this also be taken into the account, this little moment, brief as it may be – it need not be long, for it is a leap. However brief this moment, if only an instantaneous now, this "now" must be included in the reckoning.”

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Quelle: 1840s, Philosophical Fragments (1844), p. 32

“But it never occurred to him to want to be a philosopher, or dedicate himself to Speculation; he was still too fickle for that. True, he was not drawn now to one thing and now to another – thinking was and remained his passion – but he still lacked the self-discipline required for acquiring a deeper coherence. Both the significant and the insignificant attracted him equally as points of departure for his pursuits; the result was not of great consequence – only the movements of thought as such interested him. Sometimes he noticed that he reached one and the same conclusion from quite different starting points, but this did not in any deeper sense engage his attention. His delight was always just to be pressing on; wherever he suspected a labyrinth, he had to find the way. Once he had started, nothing could bring him to a halt. If he found the going difficult and became tired of it before he ought, he would adopt a very simple remedy – he would shut himself up in his room, make everything as festive as possible, and then say loudly and clearly: I will do it. He had learned from his father that one can do what one wills, and his father’s life had not discredited this theory. Experiencing this had given Johannes indescribable pride; that there could be something one could not do when one willed it was unbearable to him. But his pride did not in the least indicate weakness of will, for when he had uttered these energetic words he was ready for anything; he then had a still higher goal – to penetrate the intricacies of the problem by force of will. This again was an adventure that inspired him. Indeed his life was in this way always adventurous. He needed no woods and wanderings for his adventures, but only what he possessed – a little room with one window.”

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Johannes Climacus p. 22-23
1840s, Johannes Climacus (1841)

“When you read God’s Word, in everything you read, continually to say to yourself: It is I to whom it is speaking - this is earnestness, precisely this is earnestness. Not a single one of those to whom the cause of Christianity in the higher sense has been entrusted forgot to urge this again and again as most crucial, as unconditionally the condition if you are to come to see yourself in the mirror.”

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Sören Kierkegaard buch For Self-Examination

Soren Kierkegaard, For Self-Examination, Hong p. 36-37
1850s, For Self-Examination (1851), What is Required in Order to Look at Oneself with True Blessing in the Mirror of the Word?

“Therefore create me! You, the most esteemed, cultured public, are in possession of nervus rerum gerendarum [the moving force to accomplish something]. Just a word from you, a promise to purchase what I write, or, if it is possible, so that everything can be in order immediately, a little advance payment – and I am an author; I shall remain one as long as this favor lasts.”

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Sören Kierkegaard buch Writing Sampler

Søren Kierkegaard, Writing Sampler, Nichol P. 75
1840s, Writing Sampler (1844)

“There is no one at the Communion table who retains against you even the least of your sins, no one, unless you yourself do it. So cast them away from yourself, and the recollection of them, lest in it your retain them; and cast the recollection of your having cast your sins away, lest in it you retain them. P. 170”

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1850s, Two Discourses at Friday Communion (August 1851)

“He was extremely important to his contemporaries, who wanted nothing more than to see in his the Expected One; they wanted almost to press it upon him and and to force him into the role - but that he then refuses to be that!”

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Quelle: 1840s, Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849), p. 60

“The Spirit brings faith, the faith.”

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Sören Kierkegaard buch For Self-Examination

Soren Kierkegaard, For Self-Examination, Hong p. 81
1850s, For Self-Examination (1851), It Is the Spirit Who Gives Life

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1840s, On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates (1841)

“In vain do individual great men seek to mint new concepts and to set them in circulation — it is pointless. They are used for only a moment, and not by many, either, and they merely contribute to making the confusion even worse, for one idea seems to have become the fixed idea of the age: to get the better of one's superior. If the past may be charged with a certain indolent self-satisfaction in rejoicing over what it had, it would indeed be a shame to make the same charge against the present age (the minuet of the past and the gallop of the present). Under a curious delusion, the one cries out incessantly that he has surpassed the other, just as the Copenhageners, with philosophic visage, go out to Dyrehausen "in order to see and observe," without remembering that they themselves become objects for the others, who have also gone out simply to see and observe. Thus there is the continuous leap-frogging of one over the other — "on the basis of the immanent negativity of the concept", as I heard a Hegelian say recently, when he pressed my hand and made a run preliminary to jumping. — When I see someone energetically walking along the street, I am certain that his joyous shout, "I am coming over," is to me — but unfortunately I did not hear who was called (this actually happened); I will leave a blank for the name, so everyone can fill in an appropriate name.”

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Journals IA 328, 1835
1830s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s

“If self-knowledge does not lead to knowing oneself before God - well, then there is something to what purely human self-observation says, namely, this self-knowledge leads to a certain emptiness that produces dizziness. Only by being before God can one totally come to oneself in the transparency of soberness. p. 106”

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1850s, Judge For Yourselves! 1851 (1876)

“Let us then in the brief prescribed moments simply consider the tax collector. Throughout all the ages he has been presented as the prototype of an honest and God-fearing churchgoer. Yet is seems to me that he is even more closely related to going to Communion, he who said, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner.” Is it not as if he were now going to Communion, he of whom it is said, “He went home to his house justified””

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is it not as if he now went home from Communion!
Three Discourses at Friday Communion November 14, 1849 Hong translation 1997 P. 128
1840s, Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays (1849)

“Now just as the historical gives occasion for the contemporary to become a disciple, but only it must be noted through receiving the condition from the God himself, since otherwise we speak Socratically, so the testimony of contemporaries gives occasion for each successor to become a disciple, but only it must be noted through receiving the condition from the God himself.”

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Quelle: 1840s, Philosophical Fragments (1844), p. 75

“Let us suppose that a man believes in eternal life on Christ’s word. In that case he believes without any fuss about being profound and searching and philosophical and racking his brains.”

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Quelle: 1840s, Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849), P. 103

“There must have been many who had a relationship to Jesus similar to that of Barabbas (his name was Jesus Barrabas). The Danish "Barrabas" is about the same as "N. N." [Mr. X or John Doe], filius patris, his father's son. — It is too bad, however, that we do not know anything more about Barrabas; it seems to me that in many ways he could have become a counterpart to the Wandering Jew. The rest of his life must have taken a singular turn. God knows whether or not he became a Christian.”

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It would be a poetic motif to have him, gripped by Christ's divine power, step forward and witness for him.
Journals IIA 346 (1 February 1839)
1830s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s