The absurd... The fact that with God everything is possible. The absurd does not belong to the distinctions that lie within the proper compass of the understanding. It is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

Soren Kierkegaard

Fear and Trembling

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Topic

The absurd

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Fear and Trembling

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Danish

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

Denmark Europe

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Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Johannes de silentio]. Frygt og Bæven [Fear and Trembling]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1843.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling, translated by Alastair Hannay. Penguin Classics, 1986.

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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

Soren Kierkegaard

Either Or

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Possibility Anticipation Imagination

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Soren Kierkegaard
Source
Either Or
Language
Danish
Time
1843 1840s 19th century
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Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Victor Eremita]. Enten-Eller [Either/Or]. Vol. 1, Copenhagen: University bookshop, 1843.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life, translated by Alistair Hanny. Penguin Classics, 1992, pt. 1.

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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

On Heroes

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Great man theory of history History

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Thomas Carlyle
Source
On Heroes
Language
English
Time
1840 1840s 19th century
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Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "The Hero as Divinity." 5 May 1840, London, England, UK. Lecture.