Philosophy Today, October 1st, 2005
No, Socrates is the only person who solved the problem: he took everything, everything, with him to the grave. Marvelous Socrates ... you kept the highest enthusiasm closed up airtight in the most eminent reflection and sagacity, kept it for eternity-you took everything along. Therefore the professors are disparagingly saying of you now-O, Socrates!-that, after all, you were only a personality, that you did not even have a system.
Kierkegaard, Journals and Paper (IV 4303, 224)
There are indeed, as those concerned with the mysteries say, many who carry the thyrsus but the Bacchants are few.
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