Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments Quotes

To be an idealist in imagination is not at all difficult, but to have to exist as an idealist is an extremely rigorous life-task, because existing is precisely the objection to it.[At være Idealist i Indbildningen er slet ikke vanskeligt, men at skulle existere som Idealist er en yderst anstrengende Livs-Opgave, fordi det at existere netop er Indsigelsen derimod.]

The question of immortality is not a learned question; it is a question belonging to inwardness, which the subject by becoming subjective must ask himself.[Spørgsmaalet om Udødeligheden er væsent|ligen ikke noget lærd Spørgsmaal, det er et Inderlighedens Spørgsmaal, som Subjektet ved at blive subjektivt maa gjøre sig selv.]

If I am able to apprehend God objectively, I do not have faith; but because I cannot do this, I must have faith.[Kan jeg objektivt gribe Gud, saa troer jeg ikke, men netop fordi jeg ikke kan det, derfor maa jeg troe.]

But who, then, is this systematic thinker? Well, it is he who himself is outside existence and yet in existence, who in his eternity is forever concluded and yet includes existence within himself – it is God.[Men hvo er da denne systematiske Tænker? Ja det er Den, som selv er udenfor Tilværelse og dog i Tilværelsen, som i sin Evighed er for evigt afsluttet, og dog indeslutter Tilværelsen i sig – det er Gud.]

But to God, world history is the royal stage where he, not accidentally but essentially, is the only spectator, because he is the only one who can be that.