Soren Kierkegaard:

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.

— Soren Kierkegaard Modern

Father of existentialism

Context

Either/Or, Part I

Date / Period

1843

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/63148/63148-h/63148-h.htm

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