Look who's back...
Yes, I'm back for all none of you who still check this. I plan on doing better in the future. Also, anything posted here should be posted on my MySpace blog too, so you don't have to read both. As for what's going on, Sarah and I are engaged since I posted last. She just started school at UW-Oshkosh and I'm planning on starting in the fall. Major in Philosophy, then eventually get my Masters in Library Science, or at least that is the plan so far. Anyways, that's just a segue to post one of my new favorite quotes, and also the reason I'm planning on Majoring in Philosophy..."...What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know, except in so far as a certain understanding must precede every action. The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do; the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. What would be the use of discovering so-called objective truth, of working through all the systems of philosophy and of being able, if required, to review them all and show up the inconsistencies within each system; what good would it do me to be able to develop a theory of the state and combine all the details into a single whole, and so construct a world in which I did not live, but only held up to the view of others; what good would it do me to be able to explain the meaning of Christianity if it had no deeper significance for me and for my life; what good would it do me if truth stood before me, cold and naked, not caring whether I recognized her or not, and producing in me a shudder of fear rather than a trusting devotion?"
-Soren Kierkegaard "The Journals" Gilleleie, August 1, 1835.
posted by Paul @ 11:20 AM
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