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No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
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A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
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It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.
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Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
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In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.
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Once you label me you negate me.
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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
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For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.
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