Kierkegaard: A Single Life

the only unforgivable high treason against Christianity is the single individual’s taking his relation to it for granted” (16).

The age is drunk on seeing itself collectively as an advanced movement of history rather than as individuals continually before the paradox. The present age thinks the more people rally together about something the truer it is or becomes, forgetting that divine revelation, if it exists, remains true whether it attracts the agreement of a million, a

“Although an outsider, I have at least understood this much, that

alone with itself away from the distractions

If God exists, then God is the source of all existence. What is more, if God exists then God is Eternal, not temporary. Thus, if human selves are to realise their authentic existence, they must relate rightly to God, which is to say, to the Eternal.

“I would place myself higher than Johannes Climacus, lower than Anti-Climacus.”