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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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God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible is the battle, in a person's innermost being, between God and the world. The crowning risk involved lies in the possession of choice.
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
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What labels me, negates me.
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Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.
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On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart
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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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A poet is not an apostle he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
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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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The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.
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There can be no faith without risk.
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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To love another person is to help them love God.
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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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Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
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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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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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