What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.


Journal entry, Gilleleie (1 August 1835) Journals 1A; this is considered to be one of the earliest statements of existentialist thought. - The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard Quotes

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to ...

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to ...

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to ...

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to ...