One must first acknowledge their own state of 'despair' in order to ascertain the true essence of existence.
Showing posts with label purpose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label purpose. Show all posts
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
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