The Concept of Anxiety - Quotes

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  • "There is an old, respectable philosophical terminology: thesis, antithesis, synthesis. A more recent terminology has been chosen in which “mediation” takes the third place. … One rejects synthesis and says “mediation.” One says “reconciliation” and what is the result?"
    • The Concept of Anxiety P. 11
  • "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom"—Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety
  • "No Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety."—Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety
  • "Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate."—Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety

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