“Inconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne.”

Journal entry, August 1, 1835
1830s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s

Book IV, Part 2, Section 4
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (1793)
Context: The question here is not, “How conscience ought to be guided? For Conscience is its own General and Leader; it is therefore enough that each man have one. What we want to know is, how conscience can be her own Ariadne, and disentangle herself from the mazes even of the most raveled and complicated casuistical theology. Here is an ethical proposition that stands in need of no proof: No Action May At Any Time Be Hazarded On The Uncertainty That Perchance It May Not Be Wrong (Quod dubitas, ne feceris! Pliny - which you doubt, then neither do) Hence the Consciousness, that Any Action I am about to perform is Right, is in itself a most immediate and imperative duty. What actions are right, - what wrong – is a matter for the understanding, not for conscience. p. 251

Dionysian-Dithyrambs (1888)

Source: Bloodlines

Part One, Ch. I (p. 6)
The Good Soldier (1915)

Broken Lights p. 38 Diaries 1951

Introduction
Postmodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)