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Philosophical Fragments

“Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause—that it must be lived forward.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

If you want to comport yourself well and continually make progress, consider yourself an exile and a pilgrim upon earth (see Heb 11:13).

Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)

The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin

Søren Kierkegaard

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"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk … every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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Kierkegaard argued that anxiety (dread) was caused by “nothingness”: the despair that comes from the realization that we are not grounded in the world and are defined only by the practices in which we engage. It is through choice that we prevent the return to nothingness.

Joseph Ledoux • Anxious

No one, I think, can perceive their worth without also discerning how nearly they touch the needs of our own day, and how greatly they may help us in facing certain problems of life and conduct, some of them, in truth, as old as the world itself, which appear to us now with peculiar force and subtlety.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Maxims and Reflections

Existentialism From Dostoevsky to Sartre

Walter Kaufmann