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 Reference
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]