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Be that self which one truly is.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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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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Genius never desires what does not exist.
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Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.
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Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.
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Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it. He therefore who has leaned rightly to be in anxiety has learned the most important thing.
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Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
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A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.
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In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.
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The God that can be named is not God.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
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...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God is, there He is always creating... He wants to create a new human being. To need God is to become new. And to know God is the crucial thing.
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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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The door to happiness opens outward.
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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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Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.
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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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A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
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Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?
Soren Kierkegaard
The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.
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