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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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 thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.
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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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With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.
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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
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The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a Christian (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.
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To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
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Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
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Pleasure disappoints possibility never.
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Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.
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May new sufferings torment your soul.
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Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it
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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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If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.
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My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.
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It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.
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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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Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
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