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August 21, 2007
either the world or the cloister
I was so profoundly shaken that I understood perfectly well that I could not possibly succeed in taking the comfortable and secure via media in which most people pass their lives: I had either to throw myself into perdition and sensuality, or to choose the religious absolutely as the only thing-either the world in a measure which would be dreadful, or the cloister. That it was the second I must choose was already substantially determined: the eccentricity of the first movement was merely the expression of the intensity of the second; it expressed the fact that it would be impossible for me to be religious only up to a certain point.
Kierkegaard
Posted by amin at August 21, 2007 2:14 AM