QuoteQuest“Consciousness presupposes itself, and asking about its origin is an idle and just as sophistical a question as that old one, "What came first, the fruit-tree or the stone? Wasn't there a stone out of which came the first fruit-tree? Wasn't there a fruit-tree from which came the first stone? Journals and Papers, Hannay, 1996 1843 IVA49”
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- Wikiquote: Søren Kierkegaard
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Context
Pap. V B 53:20 1844 The Concept of Anxiety, Nichol p. 188
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Kierkegaard, Søren. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Søren Kierkegaard. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Søren_Kierkegaard
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