May 2013
17 posts
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“Every human being is by nature designated to become a thinker (all honor and...”
– Johannes Climacus Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
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“The reliability of the eighteen centuries, the fact that Christianity has...”
– Johannes Climacus Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
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“But let a person have passion enough to grasp the meaning of his own eternal...”
– Johannes Climacus Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
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“It is just too bad that where one should be objective, in strict scholarship,...”
– Johannes Climacus Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
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“Christianity is spirit; spirit is inwardness; inwardness is subjectivity;...”
– Johannes Climacus Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
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“Thus everything is assumed to be in order with regard to the Holy Scriptures...”
– Johannes Climacus Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
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“One has become too objective to have an eternal happiness….”
– Johannes Climacus Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
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“Anyone who as a believer posits inspiration must consistently regard every...”
– Johannes Climacus Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
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“But, in truth, because one makes charitable contributions, because he visits the...”
– Soren Kierkegaard Works of Love
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“For the divine authority of the Gospel speaks not to one man about another man,...”
– Soren Kierkegaard Works of Love
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“How beautiful it is — what what betokens the deepest poverty likewise...”
– Soren Kierkegaard Works of Love
Passed 200 followers today! Thanks everyone.
Passed 200 followers today! Thanks everyone.
Today is Soren Kierkegaard’s birthday. He was born on May 5th in 1813, it’s his bicentennial!
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“For what the poet shall celebrate must have in it the anguish which is the...”
– Soren Kierkegaard Works of Love
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“Which deception is more dangerous? Whose recover more doubtful, that of him who...”
– Soren Kierkegaard Works of Love
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“The majority of men are subjective towards themselves and objective towards all...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
April 2013
15 posts
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“With the invitation to all “who labor and are burdened,”...”
– Anti-Climacus Practice in Christianity
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“But where this humble consciousness of personally being a sinner (this single...”
– Anti-Climacus Practice in Christianity
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“But sin, that you and I are sinners (the single individual), has been abolished,...”
– Anti-Climacus Practice in Christianity
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“Only the person who can remain essentially silent can speak essentially…”
– Soren Kierkegaard Two Ages
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“Avoid them [priests]; only see to it that you willingly and promptly pay them...”
– Soren Kierkegaard The Moment
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“‘Christendom’ lies in an abyss of sophistry…”
– Soren Kierkegaard The Moment
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“I cannot serve these legions of huckstering knaves, I mean the pastors, who by...”
– Soren Kierkegaard The Moment
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“In this world of blather, what is true must always appear to be a kind of...”
– Soren Kierkegaard The Moment
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“Yes, I well know that it almost sounds like a kind of lunacy in this Christian...”
– Soren Kierkegaard The Moment
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“…what is terrible is not that the wish was unfulfilled, what is terrible...”
– Soren Kierkegaard The Moment
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“If you believe, and that you surely do, that God is opposed to stealing,...”
– Soren Kierkegaard The Moment
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“This it is my duty to say, this, ‘Whoever you are, whatever your life is...”
– Soren Kierkegaard The Moment
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“Nothing is more abhorrent, more villainous, betraying and causing a deeper...”
– Soren Kierkegaard The Moment
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“Water is filtered, and in this process the impure components are removed....”
– Soren Kierkegaard The Moment
Kierkegaard objecting to the Hegelian philosophy which was dominant in Copenhagen at the time.
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March 2013
21 posts
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“Woman is weak,” it is said. “She cannot bear troubles and cares...”
– Judge William Either/Or II
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“Moreover, the Church certainly does not make a woman a mere slave; it says:...”
– Judge William Either/Or II
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“If we wish to characterize the most pure and perfect, we say “a...”
– Judge William Either/Or II
The last few posts have had a certain slant to them, so the next few will offer a more charitable view of women.
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“If I ever find a girl who is humble and content and uncorrupted by indecent...”
– The Fashion Designer on his view of women and fashion.
From Part 1 of Stages on Life’s Way
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“For when a seducer boasts that every woman’s virtue is salable to the...”
– The Fashion Designer on his view of women and fashion.
From Part 1 of Stages on Life’s Way
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“Lucky, then, is the man who does not become involved with any woman; even if she...”
– The Fashion Designer on his view of women and fashion.
From Part 1 of Stages on Life’s Way
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“…just when the beloved sinks ecstatic upon the lover’s breast and...”
– The Fashion Designer on his view of women and fashion.
From Part 1 of Stages on Life’s Way
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“Whether Diogenes disturbed the woman praying in a somewhat immodest position by...”
– The Fashion Designer on his view of women and fashion.
From Part 1 of Stages on Life’s Way
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“In her negligee on the occasion of a [surprise] call, she covers herself and...”
– The Fashion Designer on his view of women and fashion.
From Part 1 of Stages on Life’s Way
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“Woman does have spirit, but it is invested just about as well as the prodigal...”
– The Fashion Designer on his view of women and fashion.
From Part 1 of Stages on Life’s Way
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“…when we are adults, imagination tends to make us bored with the Christmas...”
– Hilarious Bookbinder Stages on Life’s Way
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“In this way the summer evening lures forth the idyllic, refreshes even a craving...”
– Hilarious Bookbinder Stages on Life’s Way
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“When youth wears glasses, the lens is for seeing at a distance, for it lacks the...”
– Hilarious Bookbinder Stages on Life’s Way
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“Rather than remember, I, along with Themistocles, wish only to be able to...”
– Stages on Life’s Way
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“….for the believer (only he, after all, is a follower) continually has the...”
– Philosophical Fragments
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“Therefore, with regard to faith, one never celebrates triumphantly ahead of...”
– Philosophical Fragments
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“The Greek skeptic did not deny the correctness of sensation and of immediate...”
– Johannes Climacus Philosophical Fragments
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“Greek skepticism was a withdrawing skepticism (suspension of judgement); they...”
– Johannes Climacus Philosophical Fragments 