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The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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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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Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
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To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
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... all comparisons injure.
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.
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To be a saint is to will the one thing.
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For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
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In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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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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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do 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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Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
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