Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment. (Søren Kierkegaard)

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

Søren Kierkegaard

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