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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
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It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.
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