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Full Idea
Our destiny in this life is to be brought to the highest pitch of world-weariness.
Gist of Idea
Our destiny is the highest pitch of world-weariness
Source
Søren Kierkegaard (The Journals of Kierkegaard [1850], 1855.09.25), quoted by Alastair Hannay - Kierkegaard 10
Book Ref
Hannay,Alastair: 'Søren Kierkegaard: critical lives' [Reaktion Books 2018], p.156
A Reaction
The beginning of his last entry. Hardly a great general truth, but interesting. Should we aspire to exhaust life?
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| 21910 | Our destiny is the highest pitch of world-weariness [Kierkegaard] |
| 16008 | The best way to be a Christian is without 'Christianity' [Kierkegaard] |
| 16003 | If people marry just because they are lonely, that is self-love, not love [Kierkegaard] |
| 16001 | Life may be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards [Kierkegaard] |
| 16000 | Fixed ideas should be tackled aggressively [Kierkegaard] |
| 20735 | We need to see that Christianity cannot be understood [Kierkegaard] |