Oh, Existentialism!

A Fragment from Robert Bretall's "Introduction" to A Kierkegaard Anthology.

"It is impossible to reach an absolute beginning, and there is no such thing as 'presuppositionless thought.' The man who pretends that his view of life is determined by sheer reason is both tiresome and unperceptive (Kirkegaard found him essentially comic): he fails to grasp the elementary fact that he is not a pure thinker, but an existing individual.
To one who has chosen Christ, says Kirkegaard, "the only possible objection would be: but you might possibly have been saved in another way. To that he cannot answer. It is as though one were to say to some one in love, yes, but you might have fallen in love with another girl: to which he would have to answer: there is no answer to that, for I only know that she is my love."

[Please pardon all the male pronouns; it was a different time. The quote's from p. xx-xxi, and I read it in the 1946 Princeton University Press edition.]