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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 proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.
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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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Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.
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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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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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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
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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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Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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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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Pleasure disappoints possibility never.
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness I have walked myself into my best thoughts.
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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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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
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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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