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The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Faith is the highest passion in a man.
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There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
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In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.
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Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.
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Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.
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I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.
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It is not the path which is the difficulty rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.
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Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
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To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.
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All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!
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...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.
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No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.
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Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.
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Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.
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...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.
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Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
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