#kirkegaard

"The misrelation of despair is not a simple misrelation but a misrelation in a relation that relates itself to itself and has been established by another, so that the misrelation in that relation which is for itself [ for sig] also reflects itself infinitely in the relation to the power that established it."

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

“Socrates could not prove the immortality of the soul; he simply said: this matter occupies me so much that I will order my life as though immortality were a fact – should there be none, oh well, I still do not regret my choice, for this is the only matter that concerns me. What a great help it would already be in Christendom if there were someone who spoke and acted like that: I do not know whether Christianity is true, but I will order my whole life as though it were, stake my life on it – then if it proves not to be true, oh well, I still do not regret my choice, for it is the only matter that concerns me.”