“Knowledge can in part be set aside, and one can then go further in order to collect new; the natural scientist can set aside insects and flowers and then go further, but if the existing person sets aside the decision in existence, it is eo ipso lost, and he is changed.”

— Sören Kierkegaard

Papers VI B 66, 1845
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Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855

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