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. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored therefore they created human beings.
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to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.
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May new sufferings torment your soul.
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The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.
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In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He only sees each individual
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The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it. He therefore who has leaned rightly to be in anxiety has learned the most important thing.
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It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
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The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for without this life you really do not live.
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The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.
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If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.
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To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
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The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
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I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.
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