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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.
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I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.
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...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.
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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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... all comparisons injure.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.
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Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
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. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
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One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.
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The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for without this life you really do not live.
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Once you label me you negate me.
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Where there are two people, there is untruth.
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...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.
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Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.
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This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.
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