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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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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
Literary Critic
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to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.
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The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.
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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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I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?
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My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
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During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. By not risking at first one turns aside and serves trivialities in the second case, by risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption.
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Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
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Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.
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Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.
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It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.
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Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.
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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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The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
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I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.
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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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Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.
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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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For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
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