Trust in authors who write to inform and I know none who is greater than Soeren Kierkegaard, born in Denmark in 1813 and cut off from others by self-isolation, genius and suffering.

Kierkegaard in fact deserves sainthood because he sacrificed every earthly and worldly consideration. He began his literary activity with a heavy conscience and lived his spirituality, which is the very definition of sainthood.

His reward for being one of the greatest thinkers and authors in the entire world was not recognized because, as he bluntly said, "That purity, that integrity, that industry is what seems to be madness in the eyes of the world."

To understand what made Kierkegaard such an overwhelming threat, one must appreciate the nature of the intelligence that made him an extraordinary communicator and he captured the essence of that when he wrote;

"When in regard to communicating something it is self-evident what to communicate means, when it is merely a matter of course and not a moment need to be wasted discussing the question, when it is the kind of assumption which does not even need to be mentioned; then if one has something to communicate it is as easy as shelling peas. But when an author has an individual conception of what communication is, when perhaps the distinctive characteristic, the reality of his historical importance is concentrated in precisely that; well, then it will be a long affair - O school of patience. Before there can be any mention of understanding anything hich he has communicated, one must first of all understand him from the point of view of his particular dialectic of communication, and understand everything from that point of view. For that particular dialectic cannot be communicated in the traditional dialectic form. The age will of course require this of him. Oh, how long will it take to be understood., O school of patience. And the more a man understands himself through what he understands, the more easily he will discover he is not understood - only those who understand nothing can delude themselves into thinking that everyone understands them. Oh, the sadness of having understood something true - and then of only seeing oneself misunderstood. Sadness means to be alone in having understood something true, and as soon as one is in company with others, with those who misunderstand, that sadness becomes irony."

Kierkegaard was misunderstood because he stood up for what he called "the individual" at a time when everything in Denmark was directed towards the system. In Kierkegaard's world, "the individual" reigned supreme and anybody who challenged that sovereignty was substantively promoting a mere, optical illusion.

Kierkegaard believed that it was not possible for him to share his concept of what "the individual" is because "this category cannot be taught; the use of it is an art, a moral task, and an art the exercise of which is always dangerous and at times might even require the life of the artist."

Kierkegaard used Socrates as an example of an individual who was put to death for being himself and that certainly illustrate the dangers he identified regarding "the system" that targets and eliminates the life of a human being.

Justice is frequently fickle because the human tendency to gossip is greater than the ability to understand and while Kierkegaard dedicated his life to enhance clarity, his existence was made wretched because, as he wrote, "The slightest thing I do, even if I simply pay a visit, is lyingly distorted and repeated everywhere; if The Corsair gets to know of it then is printed and read by the whole population."

The Corsair was the Danish satirical paper that lampooned everyone of notable standing.

The deception Kierkegaard encountered was evidently spread by people who are essentially delusional and the influence of their monstrous lies, as Kierkeggard indicated in the following words, was very powerful;

"It is really curious how men, whom I otherwise look upon as honest, and who in other respects are not my enemies, lie monstrously, and are hardly conscious of it themselves, when they really get into a passion. Passion has an extraordinary power."

Isolation dissolved passion and gave Kierkegaard the opportunity to be "the individual" he admired. His unburdened intellect served him well because he was completely devoted to one idea, the will to discard ignorance and to develop character by not being prey to any fraud.

Kierkegaard alone lived devoted to one idea, without spouse, without children, without attachments - and what we learn from his genius ought to help us distinguish him from all the fake ones we frequently encounter;

"What makes me unpopular is not so much the difficulty of my works as my own personal life, the fact that in spite of all my endeavors I do not achieve anything (the finite teleology), do not make money, do not get a position, am not decorated, but achieve nothing all along the line, and am despised in the bargain. Now in my opinion, that is what is great about me, if indeed there is greatness. But is costs me many a struggle and great efforts, for I too am flesh and blood - and yet that is exactly why I am misunderstood and ill-treated."

Consequently, if you dismiss the validity of any human life by popular jargon, you commit the rather routine and unpardonable sin of embracing ignorance. Kierkeggard's ideas were demonstrated proven through action, not rhetoric and the source of his power is still widely misunderstood, because, as the following passage illustrates, most people are motivated by the pretence that they are informed and "objective";

"Take Socrates for Instance! In those days one sophist after another came forward and showed that the misfortune was the lack of sufficient knowledge, more and more research was necessary, the evil was ignorance - and then along came old father Socrates saying: no it is precisely ignorance which is our salvation.

Now exactly the same thing happened to Socrates in his day as has happened to me. He was looked upon as representing evil; for, in the eyes of the age, ignorance was evil - and yet Socrates was indeed the doctor.

It requires a fortunate genius (or an infinite profundity and a perfect ear, in order that all the demonical phenomena should, always understood a rebours, themselves proclaim what they need) in order not to make a mistake in those spheres. I do not praise myself for anything.

It is perfectly true, isolated subjectivity is, in the opinion of the age, evil; but "objectivity" as a cure is not one whit better.
The only salvation is subjectivity, i.e. God, as infinite compelling subjectivity."

Now just in case Kierkegaard's faith is misrepresented and we try to impose the view he was a bogus intellectual, the exact opposite is in fact true. All Kierkegaard was saying is that we all have a subjective truth no matter how we like to pretend we are objective, that must be the primary consideration of obtaining any understanding, and that is simply an indisputable fact.

In his own words, Kierkegaard said; "The majority of men are subjective towards themselves and objective towards all others, terribly objective sometimes - but the real task is to be objective towards oneself and subjective towards all others."

In essence, what Kierkeggard did was to deride the tyranny of the masses, and it is even more important to heed his words today, when the influence of popular jargon is much greater than it was in his age, when it was easier to isolate. In the timeless words of Kierkegaard;

"The ancients understood the problem better, understood that the masses are a dangerous power. And it is to the ancient conditions that history is turning back once again. Europe will not have a war (until Hitler came along and exploited existing conditions); but continued internal disorders (Plebeians-Patricians).

If mankind had not embedded itself, with the momentum of centuries and the passions of habit, in the fixed idea that a tyrant is one man, they would easily understand that to be persecuted by the masses is the most grievous of all, because the masses are the sum of the individuals, so that each individual makes his little contribution, while he does not realise how great it becomes when all of them do it."

Thus spoke "the individual" -the perfect embodiment and synthesis of intellect, body-soul and spirit.

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