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Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the

Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd.

Soren Kierkegaard
Art, Passion, Winning

Hope is passion for what is possible.

Soren Kierkegaard
Hope, Passion

It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion

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Passion, Lost, Loses

Hope is a passion for the possible.

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Passion

Faith is the highest passion in a man.

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Passion, Men, Highest
"Fear and Trembling". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Epilogue, 1843.

Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those who mock at or oppose you, for they do you good; crucify your self-love and acknowledge the wrong, the error of your heart. But have the deepest pity for those who mock at words and works of faith and piety, of righteousness; for those who oppose the good which you are doing... God preserve you - getting exasperated at them.

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Christian, Passion, Heart

It is impossible to exist without passion

Soren Kierkegaard
Passion, Impossible

Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.

Soren Kierkegaard
Book, Reading, Passion
"Stages on Life's Way". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 363-364, 1845.

This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.

Soren Kierkegaard
Passion, Evil, Age

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

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Passion, Thinking, Feelings

Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.

Soren Kierkegaard
Attitude, Passion, Character

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Soren Kierkegaard
Passion, Reflection, Age

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

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Passion, Thinking, Conclusion
Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Fear and Trembling”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.

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Christian, Powerful, Passion

If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?

Soren Kierkegaard
Passion, Dark, Men
Soren Kierkegaard (2005). “Fear and Trembling”, p.18, Penguin UK

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Soren Kierkegaard
Life, Passion, Soul

Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion. Every one knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is willing to move.

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Moving, Passion, Average

The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.

Soren Kierkegaard
Clever, Rip, Passion

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

Soren Kierkegaard
Passion, Reflection, Understanding

Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.

Soren Kierkegaard
Party, Passion, Third Parties

Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.

Soren Kierkegaard
Passion, Life Is, Human Life

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Soren Kierkegaard
Death, Passion, Light
"The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard" edited and translated by Alexander Dru, 1959.

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