Søren Kierkegaard: Frasi in inglese (pagina 6)

“My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.”

“Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.”

“The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.”

“My standpoint is armed neutrality.”

“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.”

“If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.”

“Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended…. Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored….”

“Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.”

“The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.”

“In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.”

“Hope is a passion for the possible.”

“Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?”

“What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.”

“To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.”

“It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.”

“to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.”

“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every
generation may not come that far, but none comes further.”

“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die.”

“The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.”