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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.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.
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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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When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, It is talking to me, and about me.
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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.
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Most people believe that the Christian commandments, e.g. to love one's neighbor as oneself, are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.
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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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