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• Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

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  Adversity, Voice, Affliction

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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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• 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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  Believe, Water, Wish

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• The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.

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  Thinking, Years, Pharisees

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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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• One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

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  Safety, Advice, Port

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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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• The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

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  Martyr

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• It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the left.' 'If anyone takes your coat, let him have your cloak also. Rejoice always.' 'Count it sheer joy when you meet various temptations' etc.). The most ignorant, poor creature cannot honestly deny being able to understand God's requirements. But it is tough on the flesh to will to understand it and to then act accordingly. It is not a question of interpretation, but action.

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  Christian, Giving, Joy

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• Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

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  War, Flower, Adversity

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• It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

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  Too Much, Equal, Interest

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• To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

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  Thinking, Pace, Ridiculous

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• When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.

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  People, Tasks, Want

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• Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

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  Tombstone, Individuality, Inscriptions

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• There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

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  Joy, Moments, Splendid

  "Either/or, Vol. 1". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, p. 20, 1987.

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• Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.

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  Despair, Duty, Secured

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• Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.

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  Attitude, Passion, Character

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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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  Despair, Common, Form

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• As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.

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  Archer, Men, Hands

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• Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

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  Roots, Bores You, Evil

  "Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard, ‎Howard Vincent Hong, ‎Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, Vol. 1, (p. 286), 2013.

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• There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.

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  Christian, Religious, Opposites

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• And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

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  Running, Despair, Noise

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• I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

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  Smell, Sticks, Fingers

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• Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

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  Sympathy, Sympathetic, Dread

  Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay (2014). “The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

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  Men, Twenties, Existence

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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