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The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.
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 thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.
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Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
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You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?
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Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.
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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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Language has time as its element all other media have space as their element.
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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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Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.
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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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This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.
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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
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It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many there are who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
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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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Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it
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Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world?
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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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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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When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?
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