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Quotes from The Concept of Anxiety — Søren Kierkegaard

1813–1855 Denmark

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Freedom succumbs to dizziness. Further than this, psychology cannot and will not go.

The Concept of Anxiety (1844)

Anxiety and nothing always correspond to each other.

The Concept of Anxiety (1844)

Fate is a relation to spirit as external.

The Concept of Anxiety (1844)

Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.

The Concept of Anxiety (1844)

Dogmatics must be designed in this way. Above all, every science must vigorously lay hold of its own beginning and not live in complicated relations with other sciences. If dogmatics begins by wanting to explain sinfulness or by wanting to prove its actuality, no dogmatics will come out of it, but the entire existence of dogmatics will become problematic and vague.

The Concept of Anxiety (1844)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Søren Kierkegaard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.