Not merely in the
realm of commerce but in the world of ideas as well our age is organizing a
regular clearance sale. Everything is to
be had at such a bargain that it is questionable whether in the end there is
anybody who will want to bid.[1]
-
Kierkergaard, Fear and Trembling, 1843.
[1] Søren
Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling: A
Dialectical Lyric and The Sickness
Unto Death, tr. Walter Lowrie (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2013), p. 31.
