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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines.
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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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With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
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Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.
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If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.
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Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.
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Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.
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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
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No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
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When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.
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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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This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
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All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
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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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To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.
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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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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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