kierkegaard

Posting random lines (filtered by syntactic structure) from the 21-volume Complete Works; diaries, journals and drafts.

[kierkegaard @s_kierkegaard22]

@taycaldwell Do you realize the amount of useful bots on this platform your deed has killed by canceling the free tier?

[kierkegaard @s_kierkegaard22]

Here, as with tragic guilt, we must show what is the true aesthetic sorrow and what the true aesthetic pain.

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Come, sleep and death, you promise nothing, you keep everything. […] A fire broke out backstage in a theatre.

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Quite right; properly to love God one needs also to have feared God.

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Should she have the slightest doubt as to the meaning of my conduct, this will once more confuse everything.

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For this reason marriage is based upon resignation; being in love is not.

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Even if the Deity himself were to utter them, a snag would arise as soon as human beings tried to understand them.

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Am I then absolutely nothing, unable even to weep without him? ‘Where shall I find rest and peace?

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We human beings have it in our power all the time, in a certain external, God-forsaken way, to vote on Christianity too.

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I have taken Edvard to task, I have encouraged him to rely on my friendship.

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What luxury it is to relish the ruse without being duped, only
the erotic nature comprehends.

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And about his return in glory
nothing can be known, for this can in the strictest sense be a
matter of belief only.

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Her pain is now increased by her love, by her sympathetic suffering with the one she loves.

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His experience has taught him often enough that what he propounded as doubt seemed to others to be positive truth.

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The hero behaved exactly as the Seducer but the reason was melancholy.

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The thoughts of their hearts are too puny to be sinful.

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His hope makes him aged, and nothing binds him to the world but the hope which he lives for.

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However, since that may be due entirely to accident, I shall state what reasons there are in general for its being so.

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In the meantime his system also calls for the rescue in some way or other of the finite world.

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Besides, I do not doubt that there is much I can indeed enlighten you on in regard to what it is to live aesthetically.