"His reverence will assert that there is too much philosophy in the book; His Right Reverence’s mental eye will seek in vain for what the congregation, especially in our day, needs so very much, the genuinely speculative."
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Søren Kierkegaard
1813 – 1855
dänischer Philosoph, Theologe und Schriftsteller
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