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Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume 1 QUOTES

Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume 1 QUOTES

1 " A superstitious belief which embraces an error keeps the possibility open that the truth may come to arouse it; but when the truth is there, and the superstitious mode of apprehending it transforms it into a lie, no saving awakening is possible. "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume 1

2 " Christianity will not be content to be an evolution within the total category of human nature; an engagement such as that is too little to offer to a god. Neither does it even want to be the paradox for the believer, and then surreptitiously, little by little, provide him with understanding, because the martyrdom of faith (to crucify one's understanding) is not a martyrdom of the moment, but the martyrdom of continuance. "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume 1

3 " If a pastor's activity in the church is merely a once-a-week attempt to tow the congregation's cargo ship a little closer to eternity, the whole thing comes to nothing. A human life, unlike a cargo ship, cannot lie in the same place until the next Sunday. "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume 1

4 " Aber Existieren ist etwas ganz anderes als Wissen. "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume 1