Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.
Kierkegaard, Søren. The Sickness Unto Death. Translated by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, Princeton University Press, 1980, p. 109.
It is onerous for most governments to have one of their secret programs exposed by the press. But what is much worse for the government is the exposure of a secret program whose legality is not on a firm foundation.
The Sally was a ship that belonged to his family business that engaged in a slave trading voyage where many slaves were killed. It was a traumatic experience for Moses Brown and he became a staunch abolitionist and in this letter persuaded other Rhode Island merchants to avoid the slave trade. See {641478} and {585793}.
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christendom, morality, ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of religion, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony, and parables. Much of his philosophical work deals with the issues of how one lives as a "single individual", giving priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment. He was against literary critics who defined idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, and thought that Swedenborg, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schlegel, and Hans Christian Andersen were all "understood" far too quickly by "scholars".
