Fear and Trembling Quotes

“Faith is the highest passion in a man. There are perhaps many in every generation who do not even reach it, but no one gets further.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:passion faith

“What our age lacks, however, is not reflection but passion.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:passion thought

“Faith is a miracle, and yet no man is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is unified is passion, and faith is a passion.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:passion faith

“Every movement of infinity comes about by passion, and no reflection can bring a movement about.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:passion

“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

topic:youth age existence

“For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do, and there is surely no one who thinks that a man became great because he won the great prize in the lottery.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:action greatness

“Theology sits rouged at the window and courts its favor, offering to sell her charms to philosophy.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:philosophy

“If philosophy among other vagaries were also to have the notion that it could occur to a man to act in accordance with its teaching, one might make out of that a queer comedy.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:philosophy teaching

“The true knight of faith is a witness, never a teacher, and therein lies his deep humanity, which is worth a good deal more than this silly participation in others' weal and woe which is honored by the name of sympathy, whereas in fact it is...”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:faith vanity

“Where will you find the certainty that it was not after all a hidden pride which governed your resolution?”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:pride

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