“When the religious speaker, in explaining that a man can do nothing of
himself, sets something wholly particular in relation to this principle, he
gives the auditor occasion to secure a profound insight into his own inmost
heart, helps him to penetrate the delusions and illusions, so as to lay
aside at least for a moment the bourgeois, small-town, sugar-coating in
which he otherwise goes wrapped. Essentially, the religious orator operates by
referring finally to the absolute relationship, that a man can do nothing
of himself; but he makes the transition by means of particulars which he
brings into connection with it.”
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~Source: Concluding Unscientific Postscript To The “Philosophical Fragments”
Author: Soren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Johannes Climacus (1846)
