Eternity

Kierkegaard about “what the times demand”:

What the times need most urgently, however, can be put neatly into one word: eternity. The misfortune of our time is precisely that it has become only “time”, temporality [Zeitlichkeit], which, impatient as it is, refuses to hear of eternity. Then, well-meaning or frenzied, it even tries to make the eternal superfluous by false emulation, which will fail in all eternity. For the more one thinks it possible to dispense with the eternal, or hardens one’s heart against it, the more fundamentally one needs it.

From Either or, as quoted in Taubes, Occidental eschatology, 173–74.