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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

How do you say pensées in Danish?

In order truly to help someone else, I must understand more than he - but certainly first and foremost understand what he understands.

All true helping starts with a humbling.
Chapter 1 A : SS2

Compel a person to an opinion ... that I cannot do. But one thing I can do: I can compel him to become aware.
Chapter 1 A : SS4

I am regarded as a kind of Englishman, a half-mad eccentric, with whom we jolly well all, society people and street urchins, think to have their fun.
Pap IX A 288

The Point of View for my Work as an Author 1851
Søren Kierkegaard
(Volume XXII of Kierkegaard's Writings)
Translated by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong
Princeton 1998