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Soren Kierkegaard

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Soren Kierkegaard

Time

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Ideas, like people, change and weaken as time passes, unable to remain exactly as they once were. However, they always hold a deep longing for their original context or beginnings, much like a person misses their childhood home.

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