“What the conception of God or an eternal happiness is to effect in the individual is, that he transform his entire existence in relation thereto, and this transformation is a process of dying away from the immediate. This is slowly brought about, but finally he will feel himself confined within the absolute conception of God; for the absolute conception of God does not consist in having such a conception en passant, but consists in having the absolute conception at every moment.”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus
