Existential Essentials

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lapsed into thought. Among other thoughts I remember these: “You are going on,” I said to myself, “to become an old man, without being anything, and without really undertaking to do anything. On the



other hand, wherever you look about you, in literature and in life, you see the celebrated names and figures, the precious and much herald men who are coming into prominence and are much talked about, the many benefactors of the age who know how to benefit mankind by making life easier and easier”…then suddenly this thought flashed through my mind: “You must do something, but inasmuch as with your limited capacities it will be impossible to make anything easier then it has become, you must, with the same humanitarian enthusiasm as the others, undertake to make something harder (Kaufmann 84).”

So Kierkegaard was launched upon his career, he searched for new difficulties. He did not need to search far for he questioned his own existence, and his life was cons...