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June 8, 2009

the pathos of intellectual life

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life, and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.


Kierkegaard - Journals

Posted by amin at June 8, 2009 10:37 AM