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The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.
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 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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The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
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The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
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Don't forget to love yourself.
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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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