#kierkegaard

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

Do it or do not do it- you will regret both.

Soren Kierkegaard

[homoerotisch]

Søren Kierkegaard, in a letter to his niece Henriette Lund, 1847

[s-kierkegaard]

You should let the mouth speak out of the abundance of the heart; you should not be ashamed of your feelings and even less of honestly giving each one his due. But one should not love in words and platitudes, and neither should one recognize love by them. - S. Kierkegaard, Works of Love, p.12

[apesoformythoughts]

[philistina3000]

These days Kierkegaard would be quite disappointed in me. Even Hegel would be like "time and place, girl, time and place!"

[apocryphics]

copenhagen, 2022.

[philosophybitmaps]

[sacredcitycenter]

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

[skoolz-of-thotz]

[soracities]

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. And if one thinks over that proposition it becomes more and more evident that life can never really be understood in time because at no particular moment can I find the necessary resting-place from which to understand it.

Søren Kierkegaard, from At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell

[dzgrizzle]

From Tom Gauld (and Kierkegaard)

[sororalice]

"Christianity teaches that this individual human being -- and thus every single individual human being, no matter whether man, woman, servant girl, cabinet minister, merchant, barber, student, or whatever -- this individual human being exists before God, this individual human being who perhaps would be proud of having spoken with the king once in his life, this human being who does not have the slightest illusion of being on intimate terms with this one or that one, this human being exists before God, may speak with God any time he wants to, assured of being heard by Him -- in short, this person is invited to live on the most intimate terms with God! Furthermore, for this person's sake, also for this very person's sake, God comes to the world, allows himself to be born, to suffer, to die, and this suffering God -- he almost implores and beseeches this person to accept the help that is offered to him! Truly, if there is anything to lose one's mind over, this is it!" -Søren Kierkegaard, “The Sickness Unto Death”

[redsediment]

You GOTTA love the Kierkegaard influences in Conclave. Faith having no use for certainty, the mundane having an essence of the divine spirit, anxiety over the lack of objectivity of faith…

[thirdity]

When I read the “Exordium,” [of Fear and Trembling] I feel that Kierkegaard is trying to get me into a state of readiness for a consideration of the actual biblical story of Abraham and Isaac, which is essentially inexplicable. The “Exordium” is a rehearsal: it lays out a series of rational explanations the better to demonstrate their poverty as explanations. For nothing can prepare us for Abraham and no one can understand him — at least, not rationally. Faith involves an acceptance of absurdity. To get us to that point, Kierkegaard hopes to “attune” us, systematically discarding all the usual defenses we put up in the face of the absurd.

Zadie Smith, "Some Notes on Attunement"

[pav-anne]

"If you crush a cockroach, you're a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you're a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria"- Friedrich Nietzsche

[fuoridalcloro]

Per nuotare, è necessario togliersi tutti i vestiti. Al fine di aspirare alla verità, ci si deve spogliare in un senso molto più interiore, occorre spogliarsi di pensieri, pregiudizi, preconcetti, egoismo. Solo quando si diventa sufficientemente nudi interiormente, si può essere ricettivi e comprendere la realtà.

-Søren Kierkegaard-