Сёрен Обю Кьеркегор цитаты страница 11

„Старость, как известно, осуществляет мечты юности; пример — Свифт: в молодости он построил дом для умалишенных, а на старости лет и сам поселился в нем.“

Дневник обольстителя

„Страх — это головокружение свободы.“

„Я предпочитаю разговаривать с детьми — есть, по крайней мере, надежда, что из них выйдут разумные существа, тогда как те, которые считают себя таковыми… увы!“

„Чем больше стараешься спрятаться, тем неприятнее, если тебя откроют в твоём убежище.“

„Мёртвая буква действует иногда сильнее живого слова.“

Дневник обольстителя
Вариант: Чем больше стараешься спрятаться, тем неприятнее, если тебя откроют в твоём убежище.

„Жизнь превратилась для меня в горький напиток, а мне еще приходится принимать его медленно, по счету, как капли…“

Дневник обольстителя

„Никто не возвращается из царства мертвых… — никто не является на свет без слез… — никто не спрашивает, когда хочешь явиться… — никто не справляется, когда желаешь уйти…“

„Я не способен к духовному акту веры, не могу, закрыв глаза, слепо ринуться в абсурд; для меня это невозможно, но я не хвалюсь этим.“

„Всё существующее разумно; я был и буду оптимистом!“

„Когда разрушается действительность, сам этот разрыв в целом гораздо более радикален, тут рвется каждый нерв, а разрыв, рассматриваемый именно как разрыв, уже содержит в себе некую завершенность; когда же разрушается возможность, минутная боль может быть не столь велика, однако такой разрыв очень часто оставляет в целости и неприкосновенности какую-нибудь тоненькую связку, которая становится затем постоянным проводником длящейся боли.“

Дневник обольстителя
Вариант: Всё существующее разумно; я был и буду оптимистом!

„Повесься, ты пожалеешь об этом; не повесься, ты и об этом пожалеешь, в том и другом случае ты пожалеешь об этом. Таково, милостивые государи, резюме всей жизненной мудрости…“

“I have worked for this restlessness oriented toward inward deepening. But “without authority.” Instead of conceitedly making myself out to be a witness for the truth and causing others rashly to want to be the same, I am an unauthorized poet who influences by means of the ideas.”

Сёрен Обю Кьеркегор: Цитаты на английском языке

“The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.”

Sören Kierkegaard книга For Self-Examination

Soren Kierkegaard, For Self-Examination, Hong p. 21
1850s, For Self-Examination (1851), What is Required in Order to Look at Oneself with True Blessing in the Mirror of the Word?

“When one merely states that one has many subscribers and keeps on saying it, then one gets many; just as when one sheep goes to water, the next one also goes, and when it is continually said of a large flock of sheep that they go hither and yon to water, then the rest must also go, so people believe that it must be the demand of the times, that for the sake of use and custom – they must also subscribe.”

1854
1850s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1850s

“I felt a real Christian satisfaction in the fact that, if there were no other, there was one man who (several years before existence set the race another lesson to learn) made a practical effort on a small scale to learn the lesson of loving one’s neighbor and alas! Got at the same time a frightful insight into what an illusion Christendom is, and (a little later, to be sure) an insight also into what a situation the simpler classes suffered themselves to be seduced by paltry-newspaper writers, whose struggle or fight for equality (since it is in the service of a lie) cannot lead to any other result but to prompt the privileged classes in self-defence to stand proudly aloof from the common man, and to make the common man insolent in his forwardness.”

Sören Kierkegaard книга Writing Sampler

Søren Kierkegaard, Writing Sampler, Nichol P. 89-90
1840s, Writing Sampler (1844)

“A line by Thomas à Kempis which perhaps could be used as a motto sometime. He says of Paul: Therefore he turned everything over to God, who knows all, and defended himself solely by means of patience and humility.... He did defend himself now and then so that the weak would not be offended by his silence. Book III, chapter 36, para. 2, or in my little edition, p. 131.”

Источник: 1840s, The Point of View for My Work as an Author (1848), p. 49

“Zealousness to learn from life is seldom found, but all the more frequently a desire, inclination, and reciprocal haste to be deceived by life. Undaunted, people do not seem to have a Socratic fear of being deceived, for the voice of God is always a whisper, while the demand of the age is a thousand-tongued rumor, not an all-powerful call that creates great men but a stirring in the offal that creates confused pates, an abracadabra that produces after its kind as is the case with all production. Even less do people seem to have above all a Socratic fear of being deceived by themselves, do not seem to be the least aware that if the self-deceived are the most miserable of all, then among these, again, the most miserable are those who are presumptuously deceived by themselves in contrast to those who are piously deceived.”

JP X2A 167
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s

“A Roman emperor sitting at the table surrounded by his bodyguard is a magnificent sight, but when the reason is fear, the magnificence pales. So also when the individual does not dare stand taciturnly by his word, does not stand freely and confidently on the pedestal of a conscious act, but is surrounded by a host of deliberations before and after that render him incapable of getting his eye on the action.”

Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age. A Literary Review. By Soren Kierkegaard, 1846 edited and translated by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong 1978 Princeton University Press P. 10
1840s, Two Ages: A Literary Review (1846)

“Is there anything we cannot contrive to call the demands of the times, and is there anything that does not acquire a certain prestige by being the demand of the times? But for decisive religious categories to become the demand for the times is eo ipso a contradiction. “The times” is too abstract a category to be able as claimant to demand the decisive religious categories that belong specifically to individuality and particularity; loud collective demands en mass for what can be shared only by the single individual in particularity, in solitariness, in silence, cannot be made.”

“Surrounded by hordes of people, busy with all sorts of secular matters, more and more shrewd about the ways of the world - such a person forgets himself, forgets his name divinely understood, does not dare to believe in himself, finds it too risky to be himself, far easier and safer to be like the others, to become a copy, a number, part of the crowd.”