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Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
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This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
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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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It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.
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It is intelligent to ask two questions: (1) Is it possible? (2) Can I do it?. But it is unintelligent to ask these questions: (1) Is it real? (2) Has my neighbor done it?
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As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.
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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
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The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.
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In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.
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The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a Christian (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.
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