Soren Kierkegaard

woman, and many other delights. After hesitating for a moment—he ex- plained—“I addressed the gods like this: ‘Esteemed contempo ...

New Testament, Christianity is the setting of fires. Christ himself says, ‘I have come to cast fire upon the earth.’” And Kierke ...

religious poetry in which his choice of rhythms, rhymes, and runes had made it clear that he was a disciple of Grundtvig. In 185 ...

Thurah’s epistle continued on, alluding along the way to articles from sev- eral issues ofThe Moment, to which Thurah referred i ...

Is life, that she must yield to you As though to God. But this she could not do. Oh, what a lovely stroke it Was—you simply brok ...

Yet another of Thurah’s fellow students issued a rejoinder with his Rhymed Epistle to “Defensor fidei,” Alias Theology Student T ...

ugly facial expressions. Finally the merriment got to be a little too much for Lange: “One morning, when I had been challenged i ...

disgusting, and that everyone finds rather repulsive and comical. And if, in addition to all this, you were a street philosopher ...

a human being whom he has brought to the most extreme point of weari- ness with life, God says to himself, ‘Here is the voice.’” ...

thinking in conjunction with the frail physique. Were he to go on living, he would have to continue his religious battle, but th ...

again there was nothing abnormal. Kierkegaard slept terribly during the night of Thursday, October 4 to Friday, October 5, frequ ...

cup of this every morning and evening, but because of involuntary urination when he coughed, the tea was soon stopped. “He conti ...

“Have you made any decisions about your papers?” “No. That will have to be as it may. It depends upon Providence, to which I sub ...

workFor Self-Examination. Fibiger had put flowers in his room, but Kier- kegaard did not want them put in water, and he put them ...

what will happen: The wild boar will be trapped, but the dog who gets him will pay for it. I will gladly die. Then I will be cer ...

“Then I will die without it.” “That’s not right!” “We cannot debate it. I have made my choice. I have chosen. The pastors are ci ...

SUNDAY,OCTOBER21. Boesen only just managed to enter the room when Kierkegaard let him know that this was not a convenient time, ...

a great deal, and at times he coughed. I was with him for a while, and he complained in particular about his weakness and about ...

outside were busier than usual, and the sounds of life found their way into the hospital that was otherwise so hushed. “Yes, tha ...

“Given the situation, just in case, I must not neglect to inquire whether you have the deed to the family burial plot, or if you ...