Soren Kierkegaard

not dare to express in reality the things I present on the scale on which I present them—as if I myself were the ideal. I must m ...

what was decisive. This, then, was the cause of all that hypochondriacal nonsense about having positioned myself too loftily in ...

scene of Copenhagen: “The day when the mob here in the city takes a poke at my hat (and that day may not be long off) is the day ...

On October 30, 1849, Peter Christian was at the Roskilde Pastoral Con- vention. It had actually been his intention to comment on ...

that accompanied his younger brother’s efforts to find “that single individ- ual”: “He indeed seems to be on the point of gainin ...

attheRecentConvention.”Itisasavageparodyofthejovialitythattypified Grundtvigianism: There had been an extra half-hour at the con ...

deed—the ecstatic.... I daresay what was required, then, was my brilliant sober-mindedness and cunning in order to dupe the time ...

remember him every day, absolutely every day, since that ninth of August 1838, and I will remember him until our blessed reunion ...

1850 Eight Ways Not to Say Good-Bye After the summer’s exchange of letters with Rasmus Nielsen, the remainder of 1849 settled ba ...

our Thursday walks, and for that reason I must ask you not to expect me today. Whenthe situation is onceagain such that Iam agai ...

Kierkegaard was not satisfied with these lines, however, and therefore wrote another draft that was more sympathetic and gentler ...

soon revealed his kleptomaniac tendencies both with respect to the pseud- onymous writings and to the conversations they had on ...

man; this can be seen from the many works he cites in his dissertation. And yet it can also be seen from the dissertation that h ...

35, and he had to make do with a five-room apartment plus kitchen, maid’s room, hallway,storeroom, andother minorappurtenances. ...

tation was not a little lapdog but an entire “horse market” that was situated directly outside Boesen’s windows, and there was a ...

in the street and had told her plainly that her fiance ́had asked him to visit her, but that he had decided not to do so. Nor wo ...

Thenthemetaphor wasabandonedandbecamereality, ourrelationtoGod. And then he said: And when the hour of death finally comes and t ...

but there is one thing to which no person has ever felt naturally drawn— suffering and degradation. That is something we human b ...

is profoundly affected when he learns that it depicts an execution. And all at once the image seizes hold of the child’s field o ...

nation, the youth is drawn... to that image, or the power of his imagina- tion draws that image to him; he falls in love with th ...