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"One must go further, one must go further." This impulse to go further is an ancient thing in the world. Heraclitus the obscure, who deposited his thoughts in his writings and deposited his writings in the Temple of Diana -- for his thoughts had been his armor in life, and so he left them in the temple of the goddess -- Heraclitus the obscure once said, "One cannot step into the same river twice." Heraclitus had a student who did not stop there; no, the student went further and added, "One cannot even step into the same river once!" Poor Heraclitus, to have had such a student as that! For by his amendment, the thesis of Heraclitus was so improved that it became the Eleatic thesis which denies movement, and yet the student desired only to be a disciple of Heraclitus ... and to go further -- not back to the position that Heraclitus had already abandoned.
Fear and Trembling, 1843
Søren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling, 1843
Søren Kierkegaard
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