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Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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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 idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.
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Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.
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One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).
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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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I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?
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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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Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility
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To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.
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Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
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All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.
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To love another person is to help them love God.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many there are who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?
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Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.
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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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I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self
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