Kierkegaard's Writings, VIII: Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

if I can explain guilt in a subsequent person, I can explain it in Adam as well. By habit, and especially by thoughtlessness and ethical stupidity, it has been made to appear that the first is easier than the last. We want so badly to sneak away from the sunstroke of the consequence that aims at the top of our heads.

for ethics is never observing but always accusing, judging, and acting.

I am a fetish worshipper and will worship anyone with equal piety