“How close men, despite all their knowledge, usually live to …”

“How close men, despite all their knowledge, usually live to madness? What is truth but to live for an idea? When all is said and done, everything is based on a postulate; but not until it no longer stands on the outside, not until one lives in it, does it cease to be a postulate. (Dialectic - Dispute)”

— Søren Kierkegaard

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Title: Wikiquote: Søren Kierkegaard
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Journals of Søren Kierkegaard 1A75, 1835

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Kierkegaard, Søren. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Søren Kierkegaard. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Søren_Kierkegaard

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