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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 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)

Living forward

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers (1843)

Duty to love

When it is the duty to love the men we see, then one must first and foremost give up all fanciful and extravagant ideas about a dream world where the object of love is to be sought and found; that is, one must become sober, win actuality and truth by finding and continuing in the world of actuality as the task assigned to one.

Works of Love (1847)

Thanking God

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers (1841)

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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