# The Concept of Anxiety  ## Metadata - Author: [[Søren Kierkegaard, Reidar Thomte (Editor)]] - Full Title: The Concept of Anxiety - Category: #books ## Highlights - Just as Adam lost innocence by guilt, so every man loses it in the same way. If it was not by guilt that he lost it, then it was not innocence that he lost; and if he was not innocent before becoming guilty, he never became guilty. ([Location 808](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BNY0RYG&location=808)) - This is the profound secret of innocence, that it is at the same time anxiety. ([Location 900](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BNY0RYG&location=900)) - That sin came into the world six thousand years ago is said in the same way that one would say about Nebuchadnezzar that it was four thousand years ago that he became an ox. ([Location 1041](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BNY0RYG&location=1041))