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Quotes from Fear and Trembling — Søren Kierkegaard

1813–1855 Denmark

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6 quotes

Love has its priests in the poets, and one hears at times a poet's voice which worthily extols it.

Fear and Trembling (1843)

Whoever has the world’s treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

Fear and Trembling (1843)

If the ethical – that is, social morality – is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

Fear and Trembling (1843)

The present writer ... writes because for him it is a luxury that becomes all the more enjoyable and conspicuous the fewer who buy and read what he writes.

Fear and Trembling (1843)

It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.

Fear and Trembling (1843)

To be able to fall down in such a way that in the same second it looks as if one were standing and walking, to transform the leap of life into a walk, absolutely to express the sublime in the pedestrian – that only the knight of faith can do – this is the one and only prodigy.

Fear and Trembling (1843)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Søren Kierkegaard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.