One must first acknowledge their own state of 'despair' in order to ascertain the true essence of existence.
Thursday, 14 March 2013
'Meaning' - (Existential)
"What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die. (...) I certainly do not deny that I still accept an imperative of knowledge and that through it men may be influenced, but then it must come alive in me, and this is what I now recognize as the most important of all".
—Søren Kierkegaard
Labels:
existentialism,
life,
Meaning,
purpose
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