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Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-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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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
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Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
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... all comparisons injure.
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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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The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
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However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful!
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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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Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.
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The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
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I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.
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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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A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.
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