Soren Kierkegaard:

The greatest good to a human being is to be a human being, a truth that is not grasped by those who believe they have become something higher.

— Soren Kierkegaard Modern

Father of existentialism

Either/Or, Part II

1843

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"Faith is the highest passion in a human being."

"The highest good is not to be understood as an abstract, but as a concrete, as a personality."

"To be a human being means to be a spirit."

"The most dreadful thing that can happen to a man is to become a number."

"Every human being is a spirit."