The Times Are Paltry, Without Passion – Søren Kierkegaard

Source: The Present Age

Let others complain that the times are wicked. I complain that they are paltry; for they are without passion.

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Let others complain that the times are wicked. I complain that they are paltry; for they are without passion. The thoughts of men are thin and frail like lace, and they themselves are feeble like girl lace-makers…. …Fye upon them! It is therefore my soul ever returns to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that one is dealing with men and women; there one hates and loves, there one murders one’s enemy and curses his issue through all generations—there one sins.

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