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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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 not the path which is the difficulty rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.
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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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Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.
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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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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Where there are two people, there is untruth.
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Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines.
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Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.
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If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.
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Reflection is not the evil but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.
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Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.
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Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
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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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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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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
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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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