{"quotes":[{"text":"Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.","author":"Curtis Tyrone Jones","tags":["ash","death","dreaming","dreaming-big","dreams","dust","future","happiness","hope","inspirational","kierkegaard","life","life-lessons","looking-back","looking-forward","motivational","past","perseverance","persistence","phoenix","poetry","power","proverb","rebirth","salt","self-love","strength","threat","vision","wisdom"],"id":18753,"author_id":"Curtis+Tyrone+Jones"},{"text":"Just as the weak, despairing person is unwilling to hear anything about any consolation eternity has for him, so a person in such despair does not want to hear anything about it, either, but for a different reason: this very consolation would be his undoing; as a denunciation of all existence. Figuratively speaking, it is as if an error slipped into an author's writing and the error became conscious of itself as an error; perhaps it actually was not a mistake but in a much higher sense an essential part of the whole production, and now this error wants to mutiny against the author, out of hatred toward him, forbidding him to correct it and in maniacal defiance saying to him: No! I refuse to be erased! I will stand as a witness against you; a witness that you are a second-rate author.","author":"Søren Kierkegaard","tags":["despair","existenitalism","existentialist","kierkegaard","philosophy","søren-kierkegaard"],"id":60419,"author_id":"S%C3%B8ren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"A Christian is supposed to be in the world, and yet not of the world--a Both/And as perplexing and demanding as the Either/Or that precedes the life of faith. I'm at once a pure, beautiful, genderless soul, but at the same time a gendered body full of flaws, sins, and wanting. This contradiction, the Both/And, is the Cross.","author":"Therese Doucet","tags":["either-or","existentialism","faith","kierkegaard","philosophy","philosophy-of-religion","theology"],"id":90264,"author_id":"Therese+Doucet"},{"text":"It's only when we dare to experience the full anxiety of knowing that life doesn't go on forever that we can experience transcendence and get in touch with the infinite. To use an analogy from gestalt psychology, Non-Being is the necessary ground for the figure of Being to make itself known to us. It's only when we're willing to let go of all of our illusions and admit that we are lost and helpless and terrified that we will be free of ourselves and our false securities and ready for what Kierkegaard calls 'the leap of faith.'p. 43.","author":"Thomas Cathcart","tags":["kierkegaard","leap-of-faith","meaning-of-life","philosophy"],"id":97398,"author_id":"Thomas+Cathcart"},{"text":"For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought.","author":"Søren Kierkegaard","tags":["dance","kierkegaard","philosophical-fragments","philosophy"],"id":102264,"author_id":"S%C3%B8ren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you rise in your lovely grace; the branch upon which you rest a moment when you are tired of flying; the bass that interposes itself below the soprano’s fervour to let it climb even higher—what am I? I am the earthly gravity that keeps you on the ground. What am I, then? Body, mass, earth, dust and ashes.—You, my Cordelia, you are soul and spirit.”—Johannes the Seducer, from_Either/Or_.","author":"Søren Kierkegaard","tags":["kierkegaard","love","philosophy"],"id":104913,"author_id":"S%C3%B8ren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"I am poor—you are my riches; dark—you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After all, it is a contradiction that he can own something who does not own himself. I am happy as a child who is neither able to own anything nor allowed to. I own nothing, for I belong only to you; I am not, I have ceased to be, in order to be yours.”—Johannes De Silentio, from_Either/Or_.","author":"Søren Kierkegaard","tags":["existentialism","kierkegaard","love","philosophy","seduction"],"id":108122,"author_id":"S%C3%B8ren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"When I was young, I forgot how to laugh in the cave of Trophonius; when I was older, I opened my eyes and beheld reality, at which I began to laugh, and since then, I have not stopped laughing. I saw that the meaning of life was to secure a livelihood, and that its goal was to attain a high position; that love’s rich dream was marriage with an heiress; that friendship’s blessing was help in financial difficulties; that wisdom was what the majority assumed it to be; that enthusiasm consisted in making a speech; that it was courage to risk the loss of ten dollars; that kindness consisted in saying, “You are welcome,” at the dinner table; that piety consisted in going to communion once a year. This I saw, and I laughed.","author":"Søren Kierkegaard","tags":["kierkegaard","laugh","life","philosophy"],"id":115209,"author_id":"S%C3%B8ren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"Love is everything. So, for one who loves, everything has ceased to have meaning in itself and only means something through the interpretation love gives it. Thus if another betrothed became convinced there was some other girl he cared for, he would presumably stand there like a criminal and his fiancée be outraged. You, however, I know would see a tribute in such a confession; for me to be able to love another you know is an impossibility; it is my love for you casting its reflections over the whole of life. So when I care about someone else, it is not to convince myself that I do not love her but only you—that would be presumptuous; but since my whole soul is filled with you, life takes on another meaning for me: it becomes a myth about you.'—Johannes the Seducer, from_Either/Or_.","author":"Søren Kierkegaard","tags":["kierkegaard","love","philosophy"],"id":118209,"author_id":"S%C3%B8ren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"Should one of them after having caught the greatness of Abraham's deed, but also the appallingness of it, venture out on the road, I would saddle my horse and ride along with him. At every stop before we came to the mountain in Moriah I would explain to him that he could still turn back, could rue the misunderstanding that he was called to be tried in a conflict of this nature, could confess that he lacked the courage, so that if God wanted Isaac God must take him himself.","author":"Johannes de Silentio","tags":["abraham","faith","isaac","kierkegaard"],"id":127411,"author_id":"Johannes+de+Silentio"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}