Edoarda

“The Highest, after all, is not to comprehend the Highest, but to do it.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

“Just as a physician might say that there very likely is not one single living human being who is completely healthy, so anyone who really knows mankind might say that there is not one single living human being who does not despair a little, who does not secretly harbor an unrest, an inner strife, a disharmony, an anxiety about an unknown something or a something he does not even dare try to know, an anxiety about some possibility in existence or an anxiety about himself, so that, just as the physician speaks of going around with an illness in the body, he walks around with a sickness, carries around a sickness of the spirit that signals its presence at rare intervals in and through an anxiety he cannot explain.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death

“Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Present Age

“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, Fear and Trembling