“For the movement of faith must be made continually on the strength of the absurd…I for my part can indeed describe the movements of faith, but I cannot perform them. When learning how to make swimming movements, one may be said to describe the movements all right but one isn’t swimming; likewise I can describe the movements of faith but when I am thrown into the water I make other movements, I make movements of infinity, while faith does the opposite, having performed the movements of infinity it makes those of finitude.”
— Soren Kierkegaard, on discussing faith compared to actually practicing.
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