Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard

by Søren Kierkegaard

[3]Which in Latin means both "from the temple" and "at once."

[4]The omission of the negative particle in the original is no doubt unintentional.

[5]Pious wish.

[6]Kings 20, 1; Isaiah 38, 1.

[7]An allusion to the plight of Aristophanes in Plato's Symposion.

[8]Haggai 1, 6 (inexact).

[9]May it be fortunate and favorable.

[10]Symposion, ch. 9.

[11]This ironic sally refers, not to Descartes' principle of skepsis, but to the numerous Danish followers of Hegel and his "method"; cf. Fear and Trembling.

[12]Symposion, ch. 24.