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Ideas of Søren Kierkegaard, by Text
[Danish, 1813 - 1855, Born in Copenhagen.]
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1835
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Letter to Peter Wilhelm Lund
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J-1A
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p.8
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16005
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I recognise knowledge, but it is the truth by which I can live and die that really matters
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1843
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Either/Or: a fragment of life
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p.37
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22087
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Philosophy fails to articulate the continual becoming of existence [Carlisle]
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p.41
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22088
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Faith is like a dancer's leap, going up to God, but also back to earth [Carlisle]
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p.62
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22091
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Kierkegaard prioritises the inward individual, rather than community [Carlisle]
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p.75
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22095
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There are aesthetic, ethical and religious subjectivity [Carlisle]
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p.189
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5651
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Traditional views of truth are tautologies, and truth is empty without a subject [Scruton]
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p.189
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5650
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Reason is just abstractions, so our essence needs a subjective 'leap of faith' [Scruton]
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I:26
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p.60
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22090
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For me time stands still, and I with it [Carlisle]
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p.106
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p.32
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20747
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What matters is not right choice, but energy, earnestness and pathos in the choosing
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Pt.1
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p.57
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9305
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The plebeians bore others; only the nobility bore themselves
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p.49
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p.49
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16006
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Either Abraham rises higher than universal ethics, or he is a mere murderer
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Prob I
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p.88
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7577
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Abraham was willing to suspend ethics, for a higher idea
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p.73
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22094
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Subjective truth can only be sustained by repetition [Carlisle]
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p.49
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p.73
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22093
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Life is a repetition when what has been now becomes
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1844
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The Concept of Dread (/Anxiety)
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p.97
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22096
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Anxiety is not a passing mood, but a response to human freedom [Carlisle]
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p.105
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22098
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Socrates neglects the gap between knowing what is good and doing good [Carlisle]
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p.154
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p.100
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22097
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The ultimate in life is learning to be anxious in the right way
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p.187
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p.103
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21909
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Ultimate knowledge is being anxious in the right way
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p.55
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p.81
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20758
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Anxiety is staring into the yawning abyss of freedom
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1844
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Philosophical Fragments
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p.40
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p.40
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16007
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I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it
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p.74
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p.74
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16013
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Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is'
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p.1
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22086
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The most important aspect of a human being is not reason, but passion [Carlisle]
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1846
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Concluding Unscientific Postscript
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p.18
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20312
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God cannot be demonstrated objectively, because God is a subject, only existing inwardly
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p.21
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20313
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The highest truth we can get is uncertainty held fast by an inward passion
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p.23
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20314
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People want to lose themselves in movements and history, instead of being individuals
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p.71
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22092
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Kierkegaard's truth draws on authenticity, fidelity and honesty [Carlisle]
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'Author'
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p.194
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7578
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I conceived it my task to create difficulties everywhere
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'Inwardness'
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p.215
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7584
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Without risk there is no faith
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'Lessing'
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p.203
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7579
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While big metaphysics is complete without ethics, personal philosophy emphasises ethics
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'Lessing'
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p.204
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7580
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Pantheism destroys the distinction between good and evil
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'Lessing'
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p.206
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7581
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Speculative philosophy loses the individual in a vast vision of humanity
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p.106
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p.106
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15999
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Pure truth is for infinite beings only; I prefer endless striving for truth
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p.281
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p.25
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20742
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The real subject is ethical, not cognitive
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p.459
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p.354
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22047
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Wherever there is painless contradiction there is also comedy
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'Subjective'
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p.208
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7582
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Becoming what one is is a huge difficulty, because we strongly aspire to be something else
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'Subjective'
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p.210
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7583
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Faith is the highest passion in the sphere of human subjectivity
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'Thinker'
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p.231
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7586
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God does not think or exist; God creates, and is eternal
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p.158
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p.158
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15998
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Perfect love is not in spite of imperfections; the imperfections must be loved as well
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p.59
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p.59
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16002
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The self is a combination of pairs of attributes: freedom/necessity, infinite/finite, temporal/eternal
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1850
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The Journals of Kierkegaard
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1840.07.18
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p.12
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16012
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Philosophy can't be unbiased if it ignores language, as that is no more independent than individuals are
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1855.09.25
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p.156
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21910
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Our destiny is the highest pitch of world-weariness
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JP-1:214
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p.214
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16008
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The best way to be a Christian is without 'Christianity'
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JP-III, 40-41
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p.40
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16003
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If people marry just because they are lonely, that is self-love, not love
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JP-III, 635
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p.450
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16001
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Life may be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards
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JP-III, 635
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p.635
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16000
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Fixed ideas should be tackled aggressively
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p.146
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p.4
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20735
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We need to see that Christianity cannot be understood
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1855
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Attack Upon Christendom
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p.290
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p.290
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16009
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When we seek our own 'freedom' we are just trying to avoid responsibility
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