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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 Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.
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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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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
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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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Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
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This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.
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Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
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The thing that cowardice fears most is decision
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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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The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
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I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.
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Reflection is not the evil but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.
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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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Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.
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Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.
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I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.
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To love another person is to help them love God.
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Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
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To be a saint is to will the one thing.
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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
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