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• Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

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  Thinking, Want, Paradox

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• O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.

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  Reform, Doe, Matter

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• Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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  Good Life, Roots, Evil

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• I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

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  Mean, Smell, Doe

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• ...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

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  Hate, Talking, People

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• The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

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  Men, Ideas, Differences

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• Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

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  Truth, Truth Is, Mark

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• I would have perished had I not perished.

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• A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

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  Truth, Race, Age

  Soren Kierkegaard (1966). “On Authority and Revelation”

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• Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived forward. The more one thinks through this clause, the more one concludes that life in temporality never becomes properly understandable, simply because never at any time does one get perfect repose to take the stance - backward.

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  Life, Philosophy, Thinking

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• Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.

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  Book, Reading, Passion

  "Stages on Life's Way". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 363-364, 1845.

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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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  Spring, Autumn, Heaven

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• Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.

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  Self, Deception, Infinite

  "Works of Love". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1847.

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• What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

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  Worst, Misfortunes

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• It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

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  Religious, Courage, Grieving

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• One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.

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  Tired, Thinking, Light

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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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  Perfect One, Degrees, Needs

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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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  Opportunity, Reality, Vision

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• A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.

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  Self, Spirit, Relation

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• Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

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  Love, Sweet, Doe

  Soren Kierkegaard (2017). “Philosophical Fragments”, p.20, Jovian Press

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• I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.

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  Night, Silence, Confidant

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• The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency; there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance. . . .

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  Despair, Devil, Degrees

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• What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.

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  Reality, Clothes, Would Be

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.

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  Night, Echoes, Silence

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