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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored therefore they created human beings.
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To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.
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The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.
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This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
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There can be no faith without risk.
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No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.
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It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.
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Reflection is not the evil but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
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Without risk, faith is an impossibility.
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One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.
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Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.
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All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.
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Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.
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Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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A poet is not an apostle he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
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The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
Soren Kierkegaard
Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.
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