The absurd... The fact that with God everything is possible. The absurd does not belong… — Soren Kierkegaard
The absurd... The fact that with God everything is possible. The absurd does not belong to the distinctions that lie within the proper compass of the understanding. It is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.
Fear and Trembling · 1843
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Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling, translated by Alastair Hannay. Penguin Classics, 1986.
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Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Johannes de silentio]. Frygt og Bæven [Fear and Trembling]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1843.