Sublime

The demand that Paul has demanded is to live a life without knowing what its demands are; to live, in other words, a life of faith and grace and not of works. The one thing you need – your salvation through grace – is the one thing you cannot will or achieve: ‘God is subverting the very criteria by which one might judge worth.’ Anything created by

identity-involvement dilemma.

“TRUTH with capital letters!” Nietzsche exclaimed. “I forget, Josef, that scientists have still to learn that TRUTH, too, is an illusion—but an illusion without which we can’t survive.

Several years ago the students of Stanford voted him the best teacher on the faculty, which must have enraged his colleagues because you cannot maintain proper status in an American university without cultivated mediocrity. You must be academically “sound,” which is to be preposterously and phenomenally dull. Once I had a professor who was teaching

Only someone who is finite can be free, since only someone who is finite can engage the question of what is worth doing with her time and grasp her own life as being at stake in how she leads her life. An infinite being could never lead a free life, since her own life could never be at stake in her activities. Indeed, an infinite being would have n

“We each want desperately to matter, to feel a sense of worthiness.”1 Self-knowledge is one thing, but self-regard is another.

And a sensation came over me, a sort of lovely fear, that made me think of Boughton's fear of angels. Now, I may have been more than half asleep at that point, but a thought arose that abides with me. I wished I could sit at the feet of that eternal soul and learn. He did then seem to me the angel of himself, brooding over the mysteries his mortal

Søren Kierkegaard,