People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and … - Søren Kierkegaard

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People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

Søren Kierkegaard

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish Christian philosopher and theologian, considered to be a founder of Existentialist thought and Absurdist traditions. He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christendom, morality, ethics, psychology and philosophy of religion, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and parables.

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Native Name: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

Alternative Names: Kierkegaard • Victor Eremita • Climacus • Anti-Climacus • Sören Aaby Kierkegaard

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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

If anyone thinks he has faith and yet is indifferent towards this possession, is neither cold nor hot, he can be certain that he does not have faith. If anyone thinks he is Christian and yet is indifferent towards his being a Christian, then he really is not one at all. What would we think of a man who affirmed that he was in love and also that it was a matter of indifference to him?

In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness. - Søren Kierkegaard

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