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On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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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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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.
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O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.
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Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
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. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.
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Faith is the highest passion in a man.
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Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.
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I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.
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I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.
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If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.
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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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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
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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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To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.
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On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart
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Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for without this life you really do not live.
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For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
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