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| �Every event, every word, every act, in short everything, may be explained in many ways; as someone has falsely said that clothes make the man, so one can truly say that the explanation makes the object of the explanation into what it is. As regards another man's words, deeds, modes of thought, and so on, there is no such certainty, so that to accept them really indicates choosing. The interpretation, the explanation is therefore, just because a different explanation is possible, a choice.� (Works of Love)
�Every good and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. (James 1:17) These words are so beautiful, so eloquent, so moving, that it was certainly not the fault of the words if they found no entrance to the listener's ear, no echo in his heart. They are by an apostle of the Lord, and insofar as we ourselves have not felt their significance more deeply, we still dare have confidence that they are not loose and idle words, not a graceful expression for an airy thought, but that they are faithful and unfailing, tested and proven, as was the life of the apostle who wrote them.� (Two Edifying Discourses) �...every human being has a strong natural bent and passion to become something more and different.� (Concluding Unscientific Postscript) �...every particular change will always come under the general categories of remembering and forgetting. Life in its entirety moves in these two currents, and hence it is essential to have them under control.� (Either/Or, VOL. I: THE ROTATION METHOD) �Everyone takes his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclosed deeply within me while my laughter entertains everyone. If I see someone suffer I give him my sympathy, console him as best I can, and listen to him calmly when he assures me that I am fortunate. If I can only keep this up until the day I die I shall have had my revenge.� (1837) �Faith has hopes, therefore, for this life, but note well, on the strength of the absurd, not on the strength of human understanding, otherwise it is only good sense, not faith.� (1843) �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.� (Fear and Trembling) �Faith is the highest passion in the sphere of human subjectivity.� (Concluding Unscientific Postscript) �Faith therefore cannot be any sort of provisional function. He who, from the vantage point of a higher knowledge, would know his faith as a factor resolved in a higher idea has eo ipso ceased to believe.� (Concluding Unscientific Postscript) �Faith therefore is not an aesthetic emotion but is something far higher, precisely because it has resignation as its presupposition; it is not an immediate instinct of the heart, but is the paradox of life and existence.� (Fear and Trembling) |
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