May 10, 2008 at 11:17 am (Blooms)
Tags: A Literary Review, The Present Age
“The taedium vitae so constant in antiquity was due to the fact that the outstanding individual was what others could not be; the inspiration of modern times will be that any man who finds himself, religiously speaking, has only achieved what everyone can achieve.”
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~Source: The Present Age: A Literary Review (1846)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
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May 2, 2008 at 6:53 am (Blooms)
Tags: A Literary Review, The Present Age
“The highest form of the comic arises precisely when the individual comes directly under the infinite abstraction of ‘pure humanity,’ without any of those intermediary qualifications which temper the humor of man’s position and strengthen its pathos, without any of the concrete particulars of organization which the leveling process destroys. But that again is only another expression of the fact that man’s only salvation lies in the reality of religion for each individual.”
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~Source: The Present Age: A Literary Review (1846)
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
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