Soren Kierkegaard:

The task is to understand myself, to understand what I am to do, to see what God really wishes me to do; the point is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.

— Soren Kierkegaard Modern

Father of existentialism

Context

The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, Journal IA 7

Date / Period

1835

Source

https://archive.org/details/journalsandpape00kier/page/n119/mode/2up

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