Tag: Fear and Tremblingphilosophy

If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.