Sublime

The gospel, which is the wisdom of upbringing, does not get involved in an intellectual or verbal quarrel with a person in order to prove to him that it is so; the gospel knows very well that this is not the way things are done, that a human being does not first understand that what it says is so and then decide to obey unconditionally, but the rev

Nous ne sommes pas loin de Kierkegaard et de son point de départ : je n’existe pas simplement, j’ai aussi un intérêt ou un investissement dans mon existence.

whereas Hegel understood his philosophical approach as primarily descriptive, Kierkegaard and Marx borrowed an essentially Hegelian conception of selfhood but used it prescriptively. However, as each developed his parallel criticism of Hegel’s idealism, freeing his conception of selfhood from its conservative formulation, what had once been imagine

A crowded world thinks that aloneness is always loneliness and that to seek it is perversion. —JOHN GRAVES

“You’ll more quickly find an earthly thing kept from the earth than you will a person cut off from other human beings.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.9.3

Christ, in Kierkegaard’s work, reveals, ‘gives’ something we lack. This is paradoxical for what we lack is what we are – a right relation to the reality, to the fundamental truth of human existence and so of our own lives. It is we who are, somehow have become, shadowy and distorted, stuck secretly lacking but not seeing ourselves as lacking and so

I believe the influence of Kierkegaard on Camus is underestimated.