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All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Reflection is not the evil but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.
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However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.
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Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.
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Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
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Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
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The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
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The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
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Doubt is thought's despair despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.
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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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The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.
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