Fear and Trembling QUOTES

41 " For the universal will constantly torture him and say, 'You ought to have talked. Where will you find the certainty that it was not after all a hidden pride which governed your resolution? "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

42 " *يقولون في سالف الأيام "إنه لشئ يدعو إلى الرثاء ألا تجري الأمور في العالم على نحو ما يعظ القس"-وربما جاء الوقت الذي سوف يقولون فيه،بمعونة الفلسفة على الأخص-من حسن الحظ أن الأمور لا تجري على النحو الذي يعظ به القس-فهناك على كل حال شئ من المعنى في الحياة-ولكن وعظه يخلو من كلّ معنى "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

43 " إن ما يغفلونه في قصة إبراهيم هو القلق "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

44 " Fools and young men prate about everything being possible for a man. That, however, is a great error. Spiritually speaking, everything is possible, but in the world of the finite there is much which is not possible. "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

45 " يقول مثل قديم مأخوذ من العالم الخارجي المرئي "لن ينال الخبز إلا الرجل الكادح" والغريب أن هذا المثل لا ينطبق بصدق في ذلك العالم الذي ينتمي إليه بجلاء ذلك أن عالم الظاهر خاضع لقانون النقص-وفيه تتكرر حيناً بعد آخر تلك التجربة التي نرى فيها أن من لا يعمل يحصل أيضاً على الخبز-بل إن من ينام يحصل عليه بوفرة أكثر من الرجل الكادح،فهذا العالم اسير لقانون عدم الاكتراث(أو قانون استواء الطرفين)-أما في عالم الروح فالأمر جد مختلف-فهنا يسود النظام الإلهي الأبدي-وهنا لا تمطر السماء على العادل والظالم سواء-وهنا لا تشرق الشمس على الطيب والشرير معاً-وهنا ينطبق ذلك المثل-من يعمل هو وحده الذي يحصل على الخبز-ومن لا يعمل لا يحصل على الخبز بل يبقى مخدوعاً-وأن من يحيا في القلق وحده الذي يجد الراحة-وأن من يشهر السكين هو وحده الذي ينقذ اسحق "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

46 " Silence is the snare of the demon, and the more one keeps silent, the more terrifying the demon becomes. "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

47 " For it is great to give up one's wish, but it is greater to hold it fast after having given it up, it is great to grasp the eternal, but it is greater to hold fast to the temporal after having given it up. "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

48 " But it was not to remain thus. Still once more Abraham was to be tried. He had fought with that cunning power which invents everything, with that alert enemy which never slumbers, with that old man who outlives all things–he had fought with Time and preserved his faith. Now all the terror of the strife was concentrated in one instant. "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

49 " Yet Abraham believed, and believed for this life. Yea, if his faith had been only for a future life, he surely would have cast everything away in order to hasten out of this world to which he did not belong. But Abraham's faith was not of this sort, if there be such a faith; for really this is not faith but the furthest possibility of faith which has a presentiment of its object at the extremest limit of the horizon, yet is separated from it by a yawning abyss within which despair carries on its game. But Abraham believed precisely for this life, that he was to grow old in the land, honored by the people, blessed in his generation, remembered forever in Isaac, his dearest thing in life, whom he embraced with a love for which it would be a poor expression to say that he loyally fulfilled the father's duty of loving the son, as indeed is evinced in the words of the summons, "the son whom thou lovest. "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

50 " The merman does not want to seduce Agnes, although previously he had seduced many. He is no longer a merman, or, if one so will, he is a miserable merman who already has long been sitting on the floor of the sea and sorrowing. However, he knows (as the legend in fact teaches), that he can be delivered by the love of an innocent girl. But he has a bad conscience with respect to girls and does not dare to approach them. Then he sees Agnes. Already many a time when he was hidden in the reeds he had seen her walking on the shore. Her beauty, her quiet occupation with herself, fixes his attention upon her ; but only sadness prevails in his soul, no wild desire stirs in it. And so when the merman mingles his sighs with the soughing of the reeds she turns her ear thither, and then stands still and falls to dreaming, more charming than any woman and yet beautiful as a liberating angel which inspires the merman with confidence. The merman plucks up courage, he approaches Agnes, he wins her love, he hopes for his deliverance. But Agnes was no quiet maiden, she was fond of the roar of the sea, and the sad sighing beside the inland lake pleased her only because then she seethed more strongly within. She would be off and away, she would rush wildly out into the infinite with the merman whom she loved – so she incites the memman. She disdained his humility, now pride awakens. And the sea roars and the waves foam and the merman embraces Agnes and plunges with her into the deep. Never had he been so wild, never so full of desire, for he had hoped by this girl to find deliverance. He soon became tired of Agnes, yet no one ever found her corpse, for she became a mermaid who tempted men by her songs. "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

51 " Now the story of Abraham has the remarkable property that it is always glorious, however poorly one may understand it; yet here again the proverb applies, that all depends upon whether one is willing to labor and be heavy laden. But they will not labor, and yet they would understand the story. "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

52 " وهناك أجيالٌ لا حصر لها تعرف قصة إبراهيم بحذافيرها كاملة،ولكن كم من الناس أقضّت مضاجعهم هذه القصة؟ "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

53 " Everything depends upon how one is placed. "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

54 " وهناك معرفة تحاول أن تدخل إلى عالم الروح نفس قانون الاستواء-الذي يئن تحت وطأته عالم الظاهر-فهي تحسب أن التفكير فيما هو عظيم أمر كاف-أما ما عدا ذلك من عمل فأمر لا ضرورة له-ولكنها لا تظفر حينذاك بالخبز-بل تهلك جوعاً-وما ذلك الذي تعرفه حقاً؟ لقد كانت هناك آلاف مؤلفة من الإغريق المعاصرين الذين يعرفون كل انتصارات ميلتيادس ولكن شخصاً واحداً فارق النوم جفونه بسببها-وهناك أجيال لا حصر لها تعرف قصة إبراهيم بحذافيرها كاملة-ولكن كم الناس أقضّت مضجعهم هذه القصة؟ "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

55 " إبراهيم أيها الأب المبجل ! لست بحاجة في سيرك من جبل المريا إلى بيتك إلى نشيد للثناء عليك قد يجلب إليك العزاء على خسارتك-فقد ربحت كل شئ واحتفظت بإسحق-ألم يكن الأمر كذلك؟ إن الربّ لم يأخذه منك.. "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

56 " فهاهنا كان إبراهيم فريسة للشكّ "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

57 " ولكنه كان يعلم أيضاً أن ما من تضحية يمكن أن تكون قاسية إذا طلبها الله "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

58 " من ذا الذي منح القوّة لذراع إبراهيم؟ من الذي رفع يده اليمنى،ولم يجعلها تسقط مسترخية إلى جواره؟ "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

59 " هل كان ذلك هو حالك؟ عندما أبصرت بعيداً قضاء الله العسير يقترب منك-ألم تقل للجبال فلتهوي فوقي-وللتلال زمّليني؟ ألم تتحرك قدماك متباطئة على الطريق،مشتاقة إلى الدرب القديم؟ "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling

60 " أن الله امتحن إبراهيم فقال له يا إبراهيم-فقال هاأنذا "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling