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All Christian knowing, however rigorous its form, ought to be concerned, but this concern is precisely the upbuilding.
The Sickness Unto Death (1849)
It is Christian heroism—a rarity, to be sure—to venture wholly to become oneself, an individual human being, this specific individual human being, alone before God, alone in this prodigious strenuousness and this prodigious responsibility.
The Sickness Unto Death (1849)
Sin is this: before God, or with the conception of God, to be in despair at not willing to be oneself, or in despair at willing to be oneself.
The Sickness Unto Death (1849)
People think the world needs a republic, and they think it needs a new social order, and a new religion, but it never occurs to anyone that what the world really needs, confused as it is by much learning, is a new Socrates.
The Sickness Unto Death (1849)