Søren Kierkegaard: Frasi in inglese (pagina 4)

(20 November 1847)
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s
Contesto: What the age needs is not a genius — it has had geniuses enough, but a martyr, who in order to teach men to obey would himself be obedient unto death. What the age needs is awakening. And therefore someday, not only my writings but my whole life, all the intriguing mystery of the machine will be studied and studied. I never forget how God helps me and it is therefore my last wish that everything may be to his honour.

Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Hong p. 490
1840s, Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846)
Contesto: Where is the boundary for the single individual in his concrete existence between what is lack of will and what is lack of ability; what is indolence and earthly selfishness and what is the limitation of finitude? For an existing person, when is the period of preparation over, when this question will not arise again in all its initial, troubled severity; when is the time in existence that is indeed a preparation? Let all the dialecticians convene-they will not be able to decide this for a particular individual in concreto.

Origine: 1840s, The Concept of Anxiety (1844), p. 61
Contesto: Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down into the yawning abyss becomes dizzy. But what is the reason for this? It is just as much in his own eye as in the abyss, for suppose he had not looked down. Hence, anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to posit the synthesis and freedom looks down into its own possibility, laying hold of finiteness to support itself. Freedom succumbs to dizziness. Further than this, psychology cannot and will not go. In that very moment everything is changed, and freedom, when it again rises, sees that it is guilty. Between these two moments lies the leap, which no science has explained and which no science can explain. He who becomes guilty in anxiety becomes as ambiguously guilty as it is possible to become.

JP X2A 167
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s
Contesto: 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.

1848
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s
Origine: The Journals of Kierkegaard

7 July 1838
1830s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s
Origine: The Journals of Kierkegaard

Origine: Fear and Trembling

Swenson, 1959, p. 28
1840s, Either/Or (1843)