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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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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
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To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.
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No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
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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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Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.
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Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
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This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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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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Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.
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I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith.
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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 great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.
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God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible is the battle, in a person's innermost being, between God and the world. The crowning risk involved lies in the possession of choice.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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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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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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