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Full Idea
I conceived it my task to create difficulties everywhere.
Gist of Idea
I conceived it my task to create difficulties everywhere
Source
Søren Kierkegaard (Concluding Unscientific Postscript [1846], 'Author')
Book Ref
Kierkegaard,Søren: 'A Kierkegaard Anthology', ed/tr. Bretall,Robert [Princeton 1946], p.194
A Reaction
Nice. It is like Socrates's image of himself as the 'gadfly' of Athens. The interesting question is always to see what the rest of society makes of having someone in their midst who sees it as their social role to 'create difficulties'.