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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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 the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness I have walked myself into my best thoughts.
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to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.
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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 more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.
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However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.
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The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
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