Monday, August 15, 2022

To Have No Name

Søren Kierkegaard, Journals, IA 126, March, 1836, tr. Howard V. Hong & Edna H. Hong:

It is the tragedy of not having anyone to whom one can make himself intelligible, which is so beautifully expressed in Genesis, where Adam gives all the animals names but finds none for himself. 

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