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| �...all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.� (Either/Or, VOL. I: THE ROTATION METHOD)
�All the daily press does, day in and day out, is delude people with this highest principle of falsehood: that numbers are all that matters. And Christianity rests on the idea that the truth is the single individual.� ("Proclaiming Christianity--The Daily Press", 1850) �...always is a glorious word which says everything at once, and is so fearfully easy to understand; but it is on the other hand the most difficult thing in the world to do something always, and on Monday afternoon at four o'clock it is extremely difficult to understand this always merely for the space of half an hour.� (Concluding Unscientific Postscript) �Amazing! Thus thou beholdest in nature all about thee the many forces stirring; but the power which supports all thou dost not behold, thou seest not God's almightiness--and yet it is fully certain that He also works, that a single instant without Him, and the world is nothing. So likewise He is invisible on high, yet everywhere present, employed in drawing all unto Himself--while in this world, alas, there is worldly talk about everything else but Him, as though He did not exist.� (Training in Christianity) �An ambulant musician played the minuet from Don Giovanni on some kind of reed-pipe (I couldn�t see what it was as he was in the next courtyard), and the druggist was pounding medicine with his pestle, and the maid was scouring in the yard, etc., and they noticed nothing and maybe the piper didn�t either, and I felt such well-being. �and the groom curried his horse and beat off the curry-comb against the curb, and from another part of town came the distant cry of a shrimp vender.� [June 10, 1836] �An awakening will surely come, God will surely make a point of my life--once it is over, not before.� (1848) �...an occasion, a vanishing moment. The teacher himself is no more than this; and if he offers himself and his instruction on any other basis, he does not give but takes away, and is not even the other's friend, much less his teacher.� (Philosophical Fragments, or a Fragment of Philosophy) �And from what a sad angle one learns to know people, and how sad that what looks so good at a distance is always misunderstood at the time!� ("Report", 9 March 1846) �And how does that simple love assure itself against jealousy? I wonder if it is not by virtue of the fact that it does not love in the comparative way. It does not begin by immediately loving preferentially; it loves. Therefore it can never love morbidly in a comparative way; it loves.� (Works of Love) �And if you listen to the priest, you will hear him say one Sunday that now there are beginning to be more and more Christians--in Christendom where all are Christians, and another Sunday that more and more are now dropping out--in Christendom where all are Christians.� (1849) |
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