The paradox of faith then is this, that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual, to recall a now rather rare theological distinction, determines his relation to the universal by his relation to the absolute, not his relation to the absolute by his relation to the universal.

Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy), 61.

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