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What we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world.

The Sickness unto Death (1849)

Was born on: 05.05.1813
About Author: Danish philosopher, theologian, religious author, and psychologist
Photo Source: Royal Library of Denmark

Saints out of sinners

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but He does what is still more wonderful: He makes saints out of sinners.

Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers (1838)

A new Socrates

People think the world needs a new republic, and they think it needs a new social order, and a new religion, but it never occurs to anyone that what the world really needs, confused as it is by much learning, is a new Socrates.

The Sickness unto Death (1849)

Truth

The thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.

Letter to Peter Wilhelm (1835)

God as man

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: "See, here is what it is to be a human being."

The Sickness unto Death (1849)

Irony and earnestness

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (1846)

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