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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.
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Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.
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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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...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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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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To be a saint is to will the one thing.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
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Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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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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A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.
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The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.
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Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?
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What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do 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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It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith.
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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
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The door to happiness opens outward.
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