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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

The Concept of Anxiety

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Anxiety Freedom

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

The Concept of Anxiety

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Danish

Time

1844 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Begrebet Angest [The Concept of Anxiety]. C. A. Reitzel, 1844.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. The Concept of Anxiety, translated by Jeanette B L Knox. Mercer University Press, 2008.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

Soren Kierkegaard

Either Or

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Possibility Anticipation Imagination

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Either Or

Language

Danish

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Victor Eremita]. Enten-Eller [Either/Or]. Vol. 1, Copenhagen: University bookshop, 1843.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life, translated by Alistair Hanny. Penguin Classics, 1992, pt. 1.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Soren Kierkegaard

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God and man Salvation

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Journals of Soren Kierkegaard

Medium

Personal journal

Language

Danish

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Journal entry. 7 July 1838.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. The Journals of Kierkegaard, translated by Alexander Dru. Harper Torch, 1959.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations-one can do either this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it-you will regret both.

Soren Kierkegaard

Either/Or

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Decisions and choices Regrets

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Either/Or

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Danish

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Victor Eremita]. Enten-Eller [Either/Or]. Vol. 2, Copenhagen: University bookshop, 1843.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life, translated by Alistair Hanny. Penguin Classics, 1992, pt. 2.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

Soren Kierkegaard

Fear and Trembling

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Topic

Taking action The unknown

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Fear and Trembling

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Danish

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Johannes de silentio]. Frygt og Bæven [Fear and Trembling]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1843.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling, translated by Alastair Hannay. Penguin Classics, 1986.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Tyranny Martyrdom

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Journals of Soren Kierkegaard

Medium

Personal journal

Language

Danish

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Journal entry. c. 1848.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. The Journals of Kierkegaard, translated by Alexander Dru. Harper Torch, 1959.

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss-an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc.-is sure to be noticed.

Soren Kierkegaard

Sickness Unto Death

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Losing oneself Loss Giving up

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Sickness Unto Death

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Danish

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Anti-Climacus]. Sygdommen til Døden [The Sickness unto Death]. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzels Forlag, 1849.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. The Sickness unto Death, translated by Alastair Hannay. Penguin Classics, 1989.

For without risk, no faith; the more risk, the more faith; the more objective dependability, the less inwardness (since inwardness is precisely subjectivity); the less objective dependability, the deeper the possible inwardness.

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Faith

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Danish

Time

1846 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Afsluttende uvidenskabelig Efterskrift til de philosophiske Smuler [Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments]. Copenhagen: University bookshop, 1846, pt. 2, sect. 2, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Concluding Unscientific Postscript, translated by Alastair Hannay. Cambridge University Press, 2009, pt. 2, sect. 2, ch. 2.

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.

Soren Kierkegaard

Either Or

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Topic

Poets

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Either Or

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Danish

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Victor Eremita]. Enten-Eller [Either/Or]. Vol. 1, Copenhagen: University bookshop, 1843.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life, translated by Alistair Hanny. Penguin Classics, 1992, pt. 1.

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Travel Tourism

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Fear and Trembling

Genre

Religious literature Philosophical literature

Language

Danish

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Johannes de silentio]. Frygt og Bæven [Fear and Trembling]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1843.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling, translated by Alastair Hannay. Penguin Classics, 1986.

The absurd... The fact that with God everything is possible. The absurd does not belong to the distinctions that lie within the proper compass of the understanding. It is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

Soren Kierkegaard

Fear and Trembling

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The absurd

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Fear and Trembling

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Danish

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Johannes de silentio]. Frygt og Bæven [Fear and Trembling]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1843.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling, translated by Alastair Hannay. Penguin Classics, 1986.

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.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Killing time Idleness Leisure

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Either Or

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Danish

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Victor Eremita]. Enten-Eller [Either/Or]. Vol. 1, Copenhagen: University bookshop, 1843.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life, translated by Alistair Hanny. Penguin Classics, 1992, pt. 1.

Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.

Soren Kierkegaard

Either Or

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Regrets The human condition

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Either Or

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Danish

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Victor Eremita]. Enten-Eller [Either/Or]. Vol. 1, Copenhagen: University bookshop, 1843.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life, translated by Alistair Hanny. Penguin Classics, 1992, pt. 1.