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The door to happiness opens outward.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
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There can be no faith without risk.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
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One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).
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The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.
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Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I .
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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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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.
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If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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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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This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.
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Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.
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Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend love that has grown cold can kindle.
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The Bible is God's love letter to us
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