The infinite resignation is the last stage before faith, so that anyone who has not made this movement has no faith; for only in the infinite resignation does one become conscious of one's eternal validity, and only then can one speak of grasping an eternity.
— Soren Kierkegaard Modern

Father of existentialism

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Fear and Trembling

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1843

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Controversial

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