"How far does the Truth admit of being learned? (…)For what a man knows he cannot seek, since he knows it; and what he does not know he cannot seek, since he does not even know for what to seek. Socrates thinks the difficulty through in the doctrine of Recollection, by which all learning and inquiry is interpreted as a kind of remembering; one who is ignorant needs only a reminder to help him come to himself in the consciousness of what he knows. Thus the Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him."
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Philosophical Fragments
Philosophical Fragments (Danish: Philosophiske Smuler eller En Smule Philosophi) was a Christian philosophic work written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1844. It is a discussion of "how" a person arrives at Absolute Truth vs historical or philosophical truths.
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