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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.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
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If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.
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In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.
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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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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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Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.
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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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A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.
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The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.
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Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
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The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
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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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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
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The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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