The language that needs silence (the importance of silence for the inner life)

Abstract

The focus of this paper is presenting silence as an important category for our life with a strong implication in the communication of interiority. What I intend to argue is, firs of all, that silence is not the missing of language, is not the opposition of it, but more, it is the origin of this one, it is the way how language makes itself understandable. Kierkegaard is, without exaggeration, the philosopher of silence. He understands very well that without silence the communication can not be possible. That's why I consider him very actual, that's why he still matters. Because in a society where the communication transforms itself in something trivial and vulgar, where the noise is the "new language", when our actions are noisy and superficial making us to lose ourselves in a succession of things that don't have any logical reason,   Kierkegaard return us to our interiority, where the silence transforms the words and gives them a special meaning.  In silence, the man not only reflects about himself, but also through silence he recreates the language. The presence of silence relates us with emotional and rational aspects of our being, but at the same time, it makes us to understand who we are.  In Kierkegaard's case, there is a connection between his ways of speaking or better say, his way of writing, and silence. Kierkegaard knew that the language needs silence to communicate because only in silence we can listen ourselves, only in silence we feel that something exists inside us, only in silence the eternity reveals to us.