“To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the decision to choose hope one decides infinitely more than it seems, because it… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“And although this (marital love) cannot be portrayed artistically, then let your consolation be, as it is mine, that we are not to read about or listen to or look at what is highest and the most beautiful in life,… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by being wise to the ways of… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent is capable of speaking essentially.” — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“And although this (marital love) cannot be portrayed artistically, then let your consolation be, as it is mine, that we are not to read… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The surest of stubborn silences is not to hold one's tongue but to talk” — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“If the ethical - that is, social morality - is the highest and if there is in a person no residual incommensurability in some… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.” — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I shall be as willing as the next man to fall down in worship before the System, if only I can manage to set… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image