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In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.
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 task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.
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A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
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I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.
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...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology - while in the other, certainty and confidence steadily decline. Our age is a master in developing truths while being wholly indifferent to certitude. It lacks confidence in the good.
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
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My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.
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I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.
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Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.
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Don't forget to love yourself.
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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
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Doubt is thought's despair despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.
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To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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What labels me, negates me.
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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
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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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...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.
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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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