“ The uncharitableness of the natural man cannot allow him the extraordinary that God has intended for him; so he is offended.
The degree of offense depends on how passionate a man’s admiration is. The more prosaic people, lacking in imagination and passion and thus not particularly given to admiration, are also offended, but they limit themselves to saying ”
 Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death (1849). copy citation