If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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creativitypotentialpossibleperceptionseeeyewealthpowerpassionSource: Either/Or, Part I, "Diapsalmata", Søren Kierkegaard, 1843
Genuine Kierkegaard, from the 'Diapsalmata' aphorisms opening Either/Or Part I (1843), written in the voice of the aesthete 'A'. Familiar in both the Swenson and Hong translations. The original aphorism continues '...For pleasure disappoints, possibility never' — the corpus text truncates before that clause, which is a legitimate excerpt rather than a distortion. Note for the record that the speaker is a pseudonymous persona, as with most of Kierkegaard's aesthetic writing.