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A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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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 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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Where there are two people, there is untruth.
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Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.
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Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
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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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Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
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To be a saint is to will the one thing.
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It is not the path which is the difficulty rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.
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Doubt is thought's despair despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
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A poet is not an apostle he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
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Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
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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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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.
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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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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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