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Full Idea
Faith is the highest passion in the sphere of human subjectivity.
Gist of Idea
Faith is the highest passion in the sphere of human subjectivity
Source
Søren Kierkegaard (Concluding Unscientific Postscript [1846], 'Subjective')
Book Ref
Kierkegaard,Søren: 'A Kierkegaard Anthology', ed/tr. Bretall,Robert [Princeton 1946], p.210
A Reaction
The word 'highest' should always ring alarm bells. The worst sort of religious fanatics seem to be in the grip of this 'high' passion. The early twenty-first century is an echo of eighteenth century England, with its dislike of religious 'enthusiasm'.
Related Idea
Idea 16010 While faith is a passion (as Kierkegaard says), wisdom is passionless [Wittgenstein]
| 8158 | Do not seek to know Brahman by arguments, for arguments are idle and vain [Anon (Upan)] |
| 7997 | Only by love can men see me, know me, and come to me, says Krishna [Anon (Bhag)] |
| 17593 | Always be ready to give reasons for your beliefs [Peter] |
| 6610 | I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian] |
| 6609 | With respect to religion, reason is a blind whore [Luther] |
| 22088 | Faith is like a dancer's leap, going up to God, but also back to earth [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
| 7584 | Without risk there is no faith [Kierkegaard] |
| 7583 | Faith is the highest passion in the sphere of human subjectivity [Kierkegaard] |
| 2919 | 'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true [Nietzsche] |
| 20269 | 'I believe because it is absurd' - but how about 'I believe because I am absurd' [Nietzsche] |
| 7596 | Faith is not just belief in propositions, but also putting trust in them [Armstrong,K] |
| 4727 | The chief problem for fideists is other fideists who hold contrary ideas [O'Grady] |