Poems List

Don't forget to love yourself.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he can do and becoming.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
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Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
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If you marry you will regret it. If you do not marry you will regret it. If you marry or do not marry, you will regret it.

Either/Or

Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it.

Journal, july 6., 1838

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Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 3
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Asluttende uvidenskabeligt Efterskrift

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Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated.

Journal 1848

The most painful state of living is remembering the future.

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

"The Sickness Unto Death

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Søren Kierkegaard is a seminal figure in 19th-century philosophy and theology. His work is marked by deep introspection and a penetrating analysis of the human condition, addressing themes such as anxiety, despair, choice, and faith. Kierkegaard advocated for a personal and passionate approach to existence, contrasting it with Hegel's systematic and abstract thought. He also criticized the complacency of the established church, arguing that true faith required personal commitment and a leap of faith. His writings, such as "Either/Or," "The Concept of Anxiety," and "Fear and Trembling," continue to be studied and debated for their relevance to understanding the human experience and spirituality.