"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority." -- Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish philosopher http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Soren.Kierkegaard.Quote.6865 "He who loves himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, and he who loved God became greater than all." -- Søren Kierkegaard "Life must be lived forwards, but it can only be understood backwards" -- Søren Kierkegaard "The moment I take Christianity as a doctrine and so indulge my cleverness or profoundity or my eloquence or my imaginative powers in depicting it, people are very pleased: I am looked upon as as serious Christian. The moment I begin to express existentially what I say, and consequently to bring Christianity into reality, it is just as though I had exploded existence - the scandal is there at once." In Alec Dru: The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard. [a selection]. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1938, entry 988 p. 343. Also in JP 1 A-E, entry 511. Pap. X,2 A 141, 1849. A psychological observation on homosexuality in antiquity. The reason why pederasty was so general in antiquity and was not really condemned was undoubtedly because of paganism's corruption, but psychologically there is something else to be remembered. In the relationship between man and woman, sex, there was no room whatsoever for the intellectual side; woman's position was too low for that and in the first place too low in man's estimation, which is the case everywhere in the East. The relationship is an entirely sexual one. And so the intellectual side is introduced into the love of young men as Socrates says, though in an entirely innocent sense, and so degenerated into that vice. But the intellectual side had nothing whatsoever to do with the love of the other sex. In Christendom, to greater or lesser degree, the intellectual side was added to the love of woman. But it is a question whether the addition of the intellectual side to such an instinct is not, morally, a very serious matter, and whether it does not produce a refinement as a result of which it is but little good loving and being faithful to only one when per abusum one goes and adds the intellectual side to it. Alexander Dru: The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, London: Oxford University Press, 1938, entry 1075 p. 383. Hong JP, 4, S-Z, entry 3965. Pap. X2 A 536: En psychologisk Bemćrkning om Oldtidens Drengekjerlighed. Grunden hvorfor Pćderastie var saa almindelig i Oldtiden og egentlig ikke fordřmtes, var nu vistnok Hedenskabs Fordćrvelse, men psychologisk er der dog noget Andet at erindre. I Forholdet mellem Mand og Qvinde, det Sexuelle, fandt det Intellectuelle aldeles ingen Plads; dertil stod Qvinden for lavt og fremfor Alt for lavt i Mandens Forestilling, som Tilfćldet er [i] hele Orienten. Forholdet er her blot Kjřns-Forholdet. Det Intellectuelle anbragtes saa i Forhold til at elske unge Mennesker som Socrates siger, nemlig endnu i uskyldig Forstand; og udartede saa til hiin Last. Men det Intellectuelle havde slet Intet at gjřre med det at elske det andet Kjřn. I Christenheden har man sat mere eller mindre Intellectualiteten i Forhold til det at elske Qvinden. Et stort Spřrgsmaal er og bliver det, om hele denne Tilsćtning af Intellectualitet i Forhold til en saadan Drift ikke, sćdeligt, er en meget betćnkelig Sag, om der ikke her udvikles et Raffinement der gjřr, at det kun lidet hjćlper, at man kun elsker een og holder sig til denne ene, naar man per abusum sćtter saaledes Intellectualiteten sammen dermed. http://www.utas.edu.au/docs/humsoc/kierkegaard/resources/Kierkquotes.html "The lowest depth to which people can sink before God is defined by the word 'journalist'. If I were a father and had a daughter who was seduced I should not despair over her; I would hope for her salvation. But if I had a son who became a journalist and continued to be one for five years, I would give him up. -- Søren Kierkegaard [Soren Kierkegaard / Sören Kierkegaard ] Untraced but being quoted by 1980 according to "Cassell Companion To Quotations; Compiled by Nigel Rees. 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