/lit/ - Literature

>No, an illusion can never be destroyed directly, and only by indirect means can it be radically removed....A direct attack only strengthens a person in his illusion, and at the same time embitters him. There is nothing that requires such gentle handling as an illusion, if one wishes to dispel it. If anything prompts the prospective captive to set his will in opposition, all is lost. And this is what a direct attack achieves, and it implies moreover the presumption of requiring a man to make to another person, or in his presence, an admission which he can make most profitably to himself in private. This is what is achieved by the indirect method, which, loving and serving the truth, arranges everything dialectically for the prospective captive, and then shyly withdraws (for love is always shy), so as not to witness the admission which he makes to himself alone before God - that he has lived hitherto in an illusion. (24-26)"
From Kierkegaard's The Point of View for my Work as an Author: A Report to History, and Related Writings, quoted in Arthur Melzer, Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing

>>15980453
>give me back my look

>>14519795
It is the final justice that not being one to have chosen my birth, I choose my death.

>>14507805
B-but f-faith...

>>14238960
>faith
falling for the faith meme
Its actually the only good argument for God and it still shit.

>>12854299
YOU EVER HEARD OF MY BOY

Are there any knights of faith on /lit/?

What's the best Kierkegaard translation?

There's a nothing that is nothing because it can't be no thing. This nothing isn't nothing not because it can't be something, but because being some thing would make it be no thing. It not being some thing makes it so it can be any thing, but because something can't be anything, nothing becomes everything, which makes it so every thing can't be no thing.

What should one read before attempting to read Kierkegaard?

>just b yourself

>>9685141
There is no coherent argument for the existence of a God.

>Stop being nihilistic.

>>9532394
It's okay, bro, I was just like you when I was younger. Eventually you'll accept Jesus.