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Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do 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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It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.
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My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.
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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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Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.
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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
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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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To love another person is to help them love God.
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The door to happiness opens outward.
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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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I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.
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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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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.
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