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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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Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness I have walked myself into my best thoughts.
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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If you think you understand, it isn't God.
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The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.
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No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?
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The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
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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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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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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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Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it
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Pleasure disappoints possibility never.
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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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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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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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Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.
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