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Søren Kierkegaard: “To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
Taking the Leap
Kierkegaard said that the greatest hazard of all is losing oneself — dangerous because it occurs so quietly. To be fully ourselves, then, is a thunderous feat. It is to resist the inertia of comfort and conformity and half-lived lives; to engage in the deliberate, demanding act of self-authorship rather than assuming a role that has already been wr... See more
This is the "existentialism" that Kierkegaard is considered the founder of
christianitytoday.com • Søren Kierkegaard
Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ | Aeon Ideas
aeon.coAs noted, the certainty of downfall would disturb a human being, so that although only the briefest of existences had been allotted him, he did not fulfill the possibility he had in fact been granted. “To what purpose?” he would say, or “Why?” he would say, or “What good will it do?” he would say: and then he would not develop the whole of his pote
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Kierkegaard: “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
River Kenna • Deluxe Tension™
There is no self except in relationship to the other. The economic man, the rational actor, the Cartesian “I am” is a delusion that cuts us off from most of what we are, leaving us lonely and small.