Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Søren Kierkegaard, Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, Hong p. 327
1840s, Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits (1847)
“Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.”
— Theodor W. Adorno, book Minima Moralia
Zartheit zwischen Menschen ist nichts anderes als das Bewußtsein von der Möglichkeit zweckfreier Beziehungen.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 20
Minima Moralia (1951)
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