Fear and trembling

Søren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling Penguin Classics L449, 1985 Cover: A drawing of Søren Kierkegaard by N.C. Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) “If the one who is to act wants to judge himself by the result, he will never begin. Although the result may give joy to the entire world, it cannot help the hero, for he would not know the result until the whole thing was over, and he would not become a […]

Søren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling

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Søren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling

“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.” — Søren Kierkegaard, “Fear and Trembling” // Art: “Amsterdam” by Johannes Franciscus Spohler

Søren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling

Søren Kierkegaard - a posthumous portrait of him standing writing at his desk, described by his former fiancé Regine as best capturing what he was like. A Philosophy Bites interview about Kierkegaard's 'Fear and Trembling': http://philosophybites.com/2008/08/clare-carlisle.html A New Yorker article about his 200th birthday http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/05/soren-kierkegaard-turns-two-hundred.html

Excerpt from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R. J. Hollingdale

Søren Kierkegaard quote about philosophy from Fear and Trembling: “Theology sits rouged at the window and courts its favor, offering to sell her charms to philosophy.”

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Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

Søren Kierkegaard quote about ethics from Fear and Trembling: “Is there such a thing as a teleological suspension of the ethical?”

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In Philippians 2:12, Paul urges his readers to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” What did he mean by these instructions?

Søren Kierkegaard quote about youth from Fear and Trembling: “Or what is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?”

Søren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling - He writes because for him it is a luxury which becomes the more agreeable and more evident, the fewer there are who buy and read what he writes.