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Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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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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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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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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It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many there are who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?
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Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.
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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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To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him.
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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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The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.
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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 absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.
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In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.
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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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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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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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Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world?
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Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.
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When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?
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All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.
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Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is disobedience down at the bottom.
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