Soren Kierkegaard

holds onto the seat ahead of him in order to stop the carriage... .No, the only thing to do is to get out of the carriage onesel ...

Socrates (the spiritual ancestor he so greatly revered) had once perambu- lated .Ironically enough, a novelistic possibility Kie ...

The innumerable travel routes of the day were thus merely the routes by which a restless individual fled from himself .This was ...

time, I summon up all the most blessedly wonderful thoughts I can muster about what a loving person is—and I say to myself, This ...

All this sort of thing is a torment to me .I would much rather take on any task, the most trivial sort of work as a copyist, pro ...

sparkling with wit, emotion, and thoughts .Once I said, ‘That was an excel- lent outing, only it seemed to me to be too short .I ...

architecture: “Youshalllove .You shall loveyour neighbor.Youshall love your neighbor.” During their previous conversation the ki ...

of course that did not keep him from bowing, true to form, in the wrong manner .Things got no better when the king proudly showe ...

of royal bastards on his conscience .So Kierkegaard was surely right in re- marking that “No woman, not even the most brilliantl ...

A new topic seemed necessary, hence the king asked something about Schelling’s philosophy, and Kierkegaard quickly tried to give ...

and-out psychopath, utterly devoid of self-restraint .He had participated in parties and celebrations of every description and o ...

happy with him .But this girl is an instrument he does not know how to play .She is capable of sounds that [only] I knew how to ...

or it is even worse .For the other beast seeks its prey among those who are asleep, but it has no way of lulling to sleep those ...

ing order, because as a member of an economic and intellectual upper crust Kierkegaard had all he needed in his religious inward ...

interest particularly piqued by its literary qualities so much as by the epochs that form the background of the book: the passio ...

also lay bare a phenomenon that has had a prominent place in our language since the time of Karl Marx, the phenomenon of alienat ...

edge.. .and then turn back .Among the skaters there would be someone or other who was exceptionally talented; he would even mana ...

upbringing .The individual is not to be represented by other and superior authorities but is to represent himself—which is to sa ...

Kierkegaard did not wish to develop this matter further inA Literary Review, and scarcely had he put a period at the end of the ...

Five months earlier, however, the same Kierkegaard who in August 1848 would term the whole affair a dogfight, had had a hard tim ...