quote from danish philosopher and religious thinker soeren kierkegaard. the original quote is: 'anxiety is freedom's actuality as the possibility of possibility.'THIS QUOTE is taken from The Concept of Anxiety (1844). according to kierkegaard, human liVes are set up of three phases: an esthetic phase, which can be described as hedonistic, an ethic phase, in which we BECOME AWARE OF OUR EXISTENSE AND START searching for moral values, and finally the religious phase, to which we make the 'leap of faith'.'The Concept of Anxiety' describes anxiety as a stage that is necessary before one makes the leap of faith into Christianity, the stage where one shudders at one's freedom. Anxiety can lead to sin, sin compounds the anxiety of freedom, and freedom is lost through sin; this cycle of sinfulness and anxiety can be broken only by faith.the phrase does also remind of the three slogans of the totalitarian party in george orwell's NOVEL 1984 [book]: 'war is peace', 'freedom is slavery' and 'ignorance is strength'.jdb has a tattoo of KIERKEGAARD'S quote on his arm.