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Without risk, faith is an impossibility.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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To love another person is to help them love God.
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The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
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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.
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The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.
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To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.
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As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.
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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.
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To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.
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But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.
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I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
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For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.
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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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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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A poet is not an apostle he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
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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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I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.
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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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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
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