I am convinced that those two questions—Does God exist? and Does love make sense?—are not only conditional on each other, but they are actually (in the framework of another “word game”) one and the same question. I know of no better translation of the statement “God exists” than the phrase “love makes sense.” The place for verifying those statements is not the classroom of the old metaphysics (which both Kant and Kierkegaard led us out of, each of them through different doors) but life itself; a positive answer to that dual question cannot be proved, only demonstrated. It can only be indicated
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