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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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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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Once you label me you negate me.
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.
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The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.
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The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.
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Faith is the highest passion in a man.
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Language has time as its element all other media have space as their element.
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Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I .
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In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.
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To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him.
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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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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Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.
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Don't forget to love yourself.
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Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.
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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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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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