To tell a young peasant girl that she is pretty, that she has sparkling eyes, to beg her to turn around in order to observe her form, does not exhibit Don Juan as someone exceptional but simply as a lewd fellow who looks over a girl as a dealer does a horse.
Søren Kierkegaard
Far from the self succeeding increasingly in being itself, it becomes increasingly obvious that it is a hypothetical self.
self
Knowledge can in part be set aside, and one can then go further in order to collect new; the natural scientist can set aside insects and flowers and then go further, but if the existing person sets aside the decision in existence, it is eo ipso lost, and he is changed.
order
By paying attention to the opinion of the visible reading public and of the usual reviewers, one falls into the most fatuous confusion.
reading the-public
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
game games
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Above all do not forget your duty to love yourself.
duty
If faith acquired a probability, then everything would be destroyed and faith would be confused, since this would show that it had not performed the preliminary task and therefore has allowed itself to be confounded with thoughtlessness, which comes most easily to the animal.
faith
This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.
virtues content faith
The actuality of action is so often confused with all sorts of ideas, intentions, preliminaries to resolutions, preludes of mood, etc. That there is very seldom any action at all.
action
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
men
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
principles men
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
sound music
Only the earthly and temporal mind, to its own deprivation, makes duplicitous that which in patience wants to be understood as comforting and alleviating and as rescuing and guiding in earnest.
mind
Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
sleep dreams
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