The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
As Ludwig Wittgenstein, I was deeply humbled by Kierkegaard. Widely regarded as the father of Existentialism along with Friedrich Nietzsche, Kierkegaard was a religious author, thinker, and philosopher of the nineteenth century. Like his counterpart Nietzsche his philosophy emphatically engulfs subjectivity, the importance of the individual, the problems of faith, the search for God, and essentially establishing a meaning to one’s life. Kierkegaard was critical of the Hegelian philosophy prevalent in his time and believed it to be unrealistic. Kierkegaard is one of the few men in history with whom I’ve felt immediate kinship. His humility that emanates in his writings and his ardent dedication to the divine is discerned by the deepest of souls as his most venerable quality. I myself was deeply humbled by Kierkegaard particularly his love for the humanity and God.
Kierkegaard believed that the individual could create meaning in his life only by incorporating God in that meaning. He ardently believed that Faith could overcome doubt and avail humanity in transcending oblivion. In a sense I believe Kierkegaard is an existential Immanuel Kant with his deep insight and his endorsement of the subjective meaning of life. Kierkegaard’s writings are that of a crimson sunrise lined with violet, they radiate a deep hope and love. It may seem as though I concentrate on the darker side of humanity with all this existential philosophy being spewed onto these articles but that is only to allow humanity’s goodness to shine in the face of the evils that exist within the world.
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