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Quotes from Philosophical Fragments — Søren Kierkegaard

1813–1855 Denmark

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The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

Philosophical Fragments (1844)

No question is here raised as to the true content of this; the question is if one will give assent to the God’s having come into existence, by which the God’s eternal essence is inflected in the dialectical determinations of coming into existence.

Philosophical Fragments (1844)

For whoever has what he has from the God himself clearly has it at first hand; and he who does not have it from the God himself is not a disciple. Let us assume that it is otherwise, that the contemporary generation of disciples had received the condition from the God, and that the subsequent generations were to receive it from these contemporaries – what would follow?

Philosophical Fragments (1844)

Now just as the historical gives occasion for the contemporary to become a disciple, but only it must be noted through receiving the condition from the God himself, since otherwise we speak Socratically, so the testimony of contemporaries gives occasion for each successor to become a disciple, but only it must be noted through receiving the condition from the God himself.

Philosophical Fragments (1844)

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