“ 𝙒𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙀𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧 (𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙞𝙣). 𝙉𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝙬𝙚 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚. ”

 "𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥? 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴  𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵  𝘴𝘰 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩. 𝘠𝘦𝘴, 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘪𝘧 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺  𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬. "


1. 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 :

The book starts with Kierkegaard discussing The Socratic idea of 'recollection'. Kierkegaard however himself believes in 'repetition'.  Kierkegaard compares the two ideas and admires the idea of repetition.Kierkegaard then narrates a story of a young man falling in love and through the story he tries to capture the idea of repetition.  

Some quotes:

・"Repetition and recollection are the same movement, just in 
opposite directions, because what is recollected has already been and 
is thus repeated backwards, whereas genuine repetition is recollected 
forwards"

・"It requires 
youthfulness to hope and youthfulness to recollect, but it requires 
courage to will repetition. "

・"He who will only hope is cowardly. He 
who wants only to recollect is a voluptuary. But he who wills repetition, he is a man, and the more emphatically he has endeavoured to 
understand what this means, the deeper he is as a human being"

・"Repetition is actuality and the earnestness of existence."

・"a love-struck young person is such a beautiful sight that one 
cannot help but rejoice in it and thus forget to observe."

・"Who 
could sleep! Who could sleep so easily that sleep does not become a 
heavier burden than the burdens of the day!

・" Or is it not the case that the 
older one becomes, the more life reveals itself to be deceptive; the smarter one becomes, the more ways one learns to help oneself; the 
worse off one is, the more one suffers? "

・"The older one gets, the better one understands life and the more 
one comes to care for and appreciate comfort. In short, the more 
competent one becomes, the less one is contented"

・" Every 
mood resonated melodically in my soul. Every thought, from the 
most foolish to the most profound, offered itself, and offered itself 
with the same blissful festiveness. Every impression was anticipated 
before it came, and thus awoke from within me. It was as if all of 
existence were in love with me."

・"You are the only one who really knows 
what you want, because what you want is to flow, to lose yourself 
in the ocean that is never filled! Play on, life’s drama, which no one 
calls a comedy, no one a tragedy, because no one knows how it ends! 
Play on, you existential drama, where life, like loans, is never repaid"

2. 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐬: 

Let's be honest this was very difficult, i couldn't understand half of the stuff he was saying. It's very dense. I will be re-reading for sure.In this book Kierkegaard again discusses the Socratic idea of recollection and how we achieve truth. According to Kierkegaard humans are in error (sin) and because of this the truth remains hidden from us, however we can access the truth through a teacher, but what's important here is that to access this truth we must possess the ability to understand it. And God has given us this ability. And then Kierkegaard involves ig idea of Christianity to further explain this idea. Nevertheless i found it extremely difficult.

Quotes:

・" This change is not in essence, but in being. It is a change from not being to being. "

・"it is easy to see that belief is not a type of 
knowledge, but a free act, an expression of will. It believes becoming 
and has thus in itself cancelled the uncertainty that corresponds to 
the nothingness of non-being."

・"Belief is a sense for becoming and doubt is a protest against 
any conclusion that goes beyond immediate sensation and immediate cognition"

・"Socrates did not have faith that there was a God. What he knew 
about God he achieved through recollection, and God’s existence was, for him, in no way historical"