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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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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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Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.
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Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.
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It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.
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Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
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to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.
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Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.
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It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
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Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.
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The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.
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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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One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).
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