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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.
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 found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
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The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.
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Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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