"The leading figures of the generation that came to philosophical maturity in the 1840s¹stressed, from the start, thei…"

""One must go further, one must go further." This impulse to go further is an ancient thing in the world."

"Once when the price of spices in Holland fell, the merchants had a few cargoes sunk in the sea in order to jack up th…"

"Faith is the highest passion in a man. There are perhaps many in every generation who do not even reach it, but no on…"

"Kierkegaard’s relation to idealism is not the confrontation of one ‘system’ with another, or the attempted substituti…"

"There were some pre-Nietzschean efforts to formulate perspectives that were “beyond” or “above” the traditional “mora…"

"So either there is a paradox, that the individual as the individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute ..…"

"A man rouges his face and wears a periwig. The same man is eager to try his fortune with the fair sex, he is perfectl…"

"It was a quiet evening when Abraham rode out alone, and he rode to Mount Moriah ; he threw himself upon his face, he …"

"When the child has grown big and must be weaned, the mother virginally hides her breast, so the child has no more a m…"