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This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.
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Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.
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Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
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If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Without risk, faith is an impossibility.
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The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.
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Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
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The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.
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Where there are two people, there is untruth.
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
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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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