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7584 | Without risk there is no faith [Kierkegaard] |
Full Idea: Without risk there is no faith. | |
From: Søren Kierkegaard (Concluding Unscientific Postscript [1846], 'Inwardness') | |
A reaction: Remarks like this make you realise that Kierkegaard is just as much of a romantic as most of the other nineteenth century philosophers. Plunge into the dark unknown of the human psyche, in order to intensify and heighten human life. |
7583 | Faith is the highest passion in the sphere of human subjectivity [Kierkegaard] |
Full Idea: Faith is the highest passion in the sphere of human subjectivity. | |
From: Søren Kierkegaard (Concluding Unscientific Postscript [1846], 'Subjective') | |
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'. |
5883 | Pherecydes was the first to say that the soul is eternal [Pherecydes, by Cicero] |
Full Idea: As far as the literature tells us, Pherecydes of Syros was the first who pronounced the souls of men to be eternal. | |
From: report of Pherecydes (fragments/reports [c.600 BCE]) by M. Tullius Cicero - Tusculan Disputations I.xvi.38 | |
A reaction: Presumably before that it was the physical person who arrived in the Underworld. The Hindu tradition seems to require the soul to be very long-lived, if not eternal. Why did Pherecydes come up with this idea? |