An idea · Nineteenth Century · first attested 1846
Truth Is Subjectivity
What matters most cannot be known objectively. It can only be lived.
Kierkegaard's notorious formula. He is not denying that some truths are objective (the multiplication table is the same for everyone). He is saying that the truths that matter to a person — what to commit to, what to love, what to die for — cannot be settled from a detached point of view. They can only be lived, with passion, by a single existing individual.