“The Sophist demonstrates that everything is true and nothing is true.”

— Sören Kierkegaard

Source: 1840s, On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates (1841), p. 205

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Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855

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