And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.
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To live thus to cram today with eternity and not wait the next day the Christian has learnt and continues to learn (for the Christian is always learning) from the Pattern. How did He manage to live without anxiety for the next day He who from the first instant of His public life, when He stepped forward as a teacher, knew how His life would end, that the next day was His crucifixion knew this while the people exultantly hailed Him as King (ah, bitter knowledge to have at precisely that moment) knew, when they were crying, Hosanna, at His entry into Jerusalem, that they would cry, 'Crucify Him', and that it was to this end that He made His entry. He who bore every day the prodigious weight of this superhuman knowledge how did He manage to live without anxiety for the next day.Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
An individual in despair despairs over something.... In despairing over something, he really despairs over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper.... To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneselfthis is the formula for all despair.
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Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause that it must be lived forward.
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I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity in our common stupidity.
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Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
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Genius never desires what does not exist.
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