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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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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
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Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.
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Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.
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Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.
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Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.
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To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him.
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I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?
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to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.
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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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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.
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...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology - while in the other, certainty and confidence steadily decline. Our age is a master in developing truths while being wholly indifferent to certitude. It lacks confidence in the good.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
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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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The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
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Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.
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I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.
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