Søren Aabye Kierkegaard:
( 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855)
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.
Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.
Most people are so obsessed with happiness that they pass it by.
The relationship between God and man is very simple: do not desire revelations and the like, but start by taking the liberty of being yourself. Not because you yourself are so important, but because God’s love has already numbered every hair on your head.
To discover the truth requires separation from the herd. And that alone is enough to frighten man more than death. Because man is a herd animal.
I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence the voice of God.
One would expect superstitious people to be cured when they repeatedly experience their sick dreams not being fulfilled. Yet these gain more and more power over them, just as gambling increases the more a person has lost.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
