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By Søren Kierkegaard

There's a lot to be discovered philosophically from this quantity, yet philosophical guide used to be no longer Kierkegaard's goal the following, other than within the large experience of self-knowledge and deepened knowledge. Indicating the purpose of the discourses, the titles comprise "The Expectancy of Faith," "Love Will disguise a large number of Sins," "Strengthening within the internal Being," "To achieve One's Soul in Patience," "Patience in Expectancy," and "Against Cowardliness."

In tone and substance those works are in accord with the concluding phrases of encouragement in Either/Or, which used to be paired with the 1st quantity of discourses: "Ask your self and stick with it asking till you discover the reply, for one could have recognized whatever repeatedly, said it; one can have willed whatever time and again, tried it--and but, purely the deep internal movement, basically the heart's indescribable emotion, merely that would persuade you that what you have got said belongs to you, that no strength can take it from you--for merely the fact that builds up is fact for you."

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