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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.
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The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for without this life you really do not live.
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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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All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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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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Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world?
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If you think you understand, it isn't God.
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Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.
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The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend love that has grown cold can kindle.
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful!
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The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.
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I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.
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Without risk, faith is an impossibility.
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For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
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