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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

A poet is an unhappy man

What is a poet? An unhappy man who conceals profound anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so fashioned that when sighs and groans pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Either / Or (1843)

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)

Venturing

If I have ventured wrongly, very well, life then helps me with its penalty. But if I haven't ventured at all, who helps me then?

The Sickness unto Death (1849)

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)

Inspiration of the noble-hearted

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Vol. 1 A-E (1967)

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