Oct
15
“Paradox is the intellectual life’s authentic pathos, and just as only great souls are prone to passions, so only great thinkers are prone to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing but grand thoughts still wanting completion.”
From Kierkegaard’s Journals and the quotation gracing the homepage of D. Anthony Storm’s Commentary on Kierkegaard. Scroll to the final paragraph of the introduction to read a distressing update.
