When a person has the motto "Caesar or nothing" they are striving to be Caesar. Though if they do not get to be Caesar than they are in deep despair; not because he is not Caesar but because he himself could not be Caesar. I believe Kierkegaard is saying that the person is disappointed in himself for not being able to achieve being great like Caesar; not that he wasn't Caesar in general. Kierkegaard gets very deep into different ideas and contradicts himself a lot. It is very hard to see what his main point is but I'm hoping class discussion will help narrow down ideas.
P.S. I commented on Daniel's Stephens post.
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