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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.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.
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Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.
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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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The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.
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The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
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The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.
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God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible is the battle, in a person's innermost being, between God and the world. The crowning risk involved lies in the possession of choice.
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I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
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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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