“Without a doubt, life is a natural, materially conditioned process that is subject to the laws of physical necessity. But what follows from this?”

“I fight for two things… showing that marriage is the transfiguration of the first love and not its annihilation… and that my humble marriage has had this meaning.”

In Part I of Either/Or, “A” gives a brilliant account of the “erotic stages” as depicted in Mozart’s music; but the selections he leaves out reveal much about A’s restricted “life-view“ (Livsanskuelse).

Notes on Kierkegaard’s concern with the inner and the outer in Hegel and in Christianity, along with a discussion of Kierkegaard’s broken engagement with Regine Olsen.

A general introduction to Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard, through quotations.