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“Truth is subjectivity.”
“Existing is something quite different from knowing.”
“God does not think, he creates; God does not exist, he is eternal.”
“Every human being is spirit and truth is the self-activity of appropriation.”
“The speculative thinker just wants to look at Christianity.”
“The secular mentality will say that poetry is a maiden’s over-excitement, religiousness a man’s frenzy.”
“Contingent truths of history can never become the demonstrations of necessary truths of reason.”
“The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.”
“The basis of the paradox of Christianity is that it continually uses time and the historical in relation to the eternal.”
“inspiration is indeed an object of faith, is qualitatively dialectical, not attainable by means of quantification”
“Let me be as if created for the sake of a whim; this is the jest. Yet I shall with the utmost strenuousness will the ethical; this is the earnestness.”
“Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.”
“The highest His Imperial Highness is able to do, however, is to make the decision before God. The lowliest human being can also make his decision before God.”
“It is subjectivity that Christianity is concerned with, and it is only in subjectivity that its truth exists, if it exists at all; objectively, Christianity has no existence.”
“We have become so objective that even the wife of a civil servant argues from the whole, from the state, from the idea of society, from geographic scientificity to the single individual.”
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“The inwardness of truth is not the chummy inwardness with which two bosom friends walk arm in arm with each other but is the separation in which each person for himself is existing in what is true.”
“Suffering is the 70,000 fathoms of water upon whose depths the religious person is continually. But suffering is precisely inwardness and is separated from esthetics and ethical existence-inwardness.”