Soren Kierkegaard:

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy – to be someone who is brisk about their food and work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

— Soren Kierkegaard Modern

Father of existentialism

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From 'Either/Or'

Date / Period

1843

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https://www.philosophybreak.com/articles/kierkegaard-on-why-busy-people-are-ridi…

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