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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.
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It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many there are who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?
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The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
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People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.
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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
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Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.
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The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.
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When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?
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The door to happiness opens outward.
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If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.
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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
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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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There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
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Don't forget to love yourself.
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It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.
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I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.
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The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a Christian (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
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The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
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