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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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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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No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
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My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.
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You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.
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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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A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
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A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
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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.
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Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility
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Be that self which one truly is.
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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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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.
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Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
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In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.
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