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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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Don't forget to love yourself.
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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. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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...the person who surrenders absolutely to God, with no reservations, is absolutely safe. From this safe hiding-place he can see the devil , but the devil cannot see him.
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Faith is the highest passion in a man.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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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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Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.
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With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?
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Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.
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Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.
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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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To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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If you think you understand, it isn't God.
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A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
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Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.
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