If a couple of thousand years are not suddenly sliced away for men and this bridge demolished in order to teach men to begin with the problems of actual life and existence, everything is unhinged. We confuse the existential problem itself with its reflex in the consciousness of all the generations of the learned. The main issue in regard to every existential problem is its significance to me; after that I can see whether or not I am fit to discuss it learnedly.
Soren Kierkegaard.
Journals & Papers, Vol.1 [p453],tr. Hong & Hong, Indiana U.P. 1967.
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