”Thank you, Rebecca.”
Julia Stiles as Joan Brandwyn
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
An interaction between Joan Brandwyn and President Jocelyn Carr
“Who knocks at the Door of Learning?”
“I am every woman.”
“What do you seek?”
“To awaken my spirit through hard work and dedicate my life to knowledge.”
“Then you are welcome. All women who seek to follow you can enter here. I now declare the academic year begun.”
Søren Kierkegaard at his High Desk by Luplau Janssen c. 1902 (Image source)
Fear and Trembling (1843)
Preliminary Expectoration
Søren Kierkegaard
In order to perceive the prodigious paradox of faith, a paradox that makes a murder into a holy and God-pleasing act, a paradox that gives Isaac back to Abraham again, which no thought can grasp, because faith begins precisely where thought stops…