To find the idea for which I can live and die

Rear View (black and white photograph)
Rear View (black and white photograph) by Paul Politis, 2017
Rear View (black and white photograph)
Rear View (black and white photograph) by Paul Politis, 2017

“To be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know, except in so far as a certain understanding must precede every action. The thing is to understand myself…the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard 1834–1854

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

Friedrich Nietzsche