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“Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.”

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Soren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard was a 19th-century Danish philosopher known for his existentialist philosophy and profound explorations of religious, ethical, and aesthetic issues. His ideas have had a profound impact on subsequent philosophers and literature. more

“I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.”

Should Care Lying Walks Walking Exercise Should Have Violent Get Up Ennui

Book:Either/or

Source: Either/or

“I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.”

Hands Feet Arms Cold Weakness Tired Ache

Author:Zane Grey

“Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.”

World Wells Achieve Eternity Accepted Rejects Great Success Follow Up Temporality Rejects You

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.”

Truth Order Clothes Oneself Naked Selfishness Etc Swim Conception Inward Aspire