#kierkegaard

[apesoformythoughts]

[readmydesire]

from 'fear and trembling,' søren kierkegaard

[thenocturnearchive]

A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and laughed. The more he repeated the warning the louder they applauded, until the fire engulfed everyone. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke. - S. Kierkegaard, Either/Or (Enten – Eller, 1843)

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

[funeral]

Zoltán Kőváry, Applications of Existential Psychology, Vol. 2

[philosophybits]

Kafka, though an avid reader of Kierkegaard, is connected with existentialist philosophy only to the extent that one speaks of down-and-outs as ‘annihilated existences’.

Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 143

[ninesinnin]

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music… And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.

Kierkegaard, from Either - Or

[apocryphics]

copenhagen, 2022.