Showing posts with label Søren Kierkegaard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Søren Kierkegaard. Show all posts

Friday, May 21, 2010

the simple truth





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And this is the simple truth - 
that to live is to feel oneself lost. 
He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, 
to be on firm ground. 
Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, 
he will look around for something to which to cling, 
and that tragic, ruthless glance,
absolutely sincere, 
because it is a question of his salvation,
will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. 
These are the only genuine ideas; 
the ideas of the shipwrecked.
All the rest is rhetoric, 
posturing, farce.
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- Søren Kierkegaard
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