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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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... all comparisons injure.
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Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.
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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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Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world?
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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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Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.
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It is not the path which is the difficulty rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.
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To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.
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Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.
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The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.
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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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Language has time as its element all other media have space as their element.
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A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
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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 thing that cowardice fears most is decision
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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, It is talking to me, and about me.
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