Wonder and doubt

The reason I cannot really say that I positively enjoy nature is that I do not quite realise what it is that I enjoy. A work of art, on the other hand, I can grasp. I can – if I may put it this way – find that Archimedian point, and as soon as I have found it, everything is readily clear for me.Then I am able to pursue this one main idea and see how all the details serve to illuminate it.

Journals of Søren Kierkegaard 1A 8, 1834

Above all do not forget your duty to love yourself; do not permit the fact that you have been set apart from life in a way, been prevented from participating actively in it, and that you are superflous in the obtruse eyes of a busy world, above all, do not permit this to deprive you of your idea of yourself, as