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This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God is, there He is always creating... He wants to create a new human being. To need God is to become new. And to know God is the crucial thing.
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The God that can be named is not God.
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With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.
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In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He only sees each individual
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In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.
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It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.
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Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.
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Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
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What labels me, negates me.
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Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?
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