“Now just as the historical gives occasion for the contemporary to become a disciple, but only it must be noted through receiving the condition from the God himself, since otherwise we speak Socratically, so the testimony of contemporaries gives occasion for each successor to become a disciple, but only it must be noted through receiving the condition from the God himself.”

Source: 1840s, Philosophical Fragments (1844), p. 75

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Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855

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