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to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Once you label me you negate me.
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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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Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.
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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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What labels me, negates me.
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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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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
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Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
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What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.
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Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.
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The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.
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The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
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The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.
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Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.
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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.
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