IF there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the foundation of all there lay only a wildly seething power which writhing with obscure passions produced everything that is great and everything that is insignificant, if a bottomless void never satiated lay hidden beneath all—what then would life be but despair?
 Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (1843). copy citation

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Author Søren Kierkegaard
Source Fear and Trembling
Topic passion consciousness
Date 1843
Language English
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Note Translated by Walter Lowrie
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