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| Soren Kierkegaard
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile. 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. I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over. Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. One can advise comfortably from a safe port. People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, Where is the director? I want to see him. |
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