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• You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.

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  Father, Ideas, Heaven

  "Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 37, 1843.

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• In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Art

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• When you say 'Yes' or promise something, you can very easily deceive yourself and others also, as if you had already done what you promised. It is easy to think that by making a promise you have at least done part of what you promised to do, as if the promise itself were something of value. Not at all! In fact, when you do not do what you promise, it is a long way back to the truth.

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  Christian, Thinking, Long

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• Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.

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  Blessing, Wind, Boredom

  Soren Kierkegaard (2004). “Either/Or: A Fragment of Life”, p.195, Penguin UK

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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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• If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.

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  Wine, Humble, Glasses

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.

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  God, Ideas, Doe

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• I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.

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  Believe, Soul, World

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• If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.

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  Hero, Judging, World

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• It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.

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  Exercise, Men, Thinking

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• Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.

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  Wind, Genius, Thunderstorm

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• To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him.

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  Thanking Him, Legs, Knees

  "Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper (1841), 1959.

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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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• All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

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  Essentials, Existence, Relate

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• Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.

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  Love Is, Men, Thinking

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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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• 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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  Generations, How To Love, Humans

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• One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

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  Passion, Thinking, Feelings

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• For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

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  God Love, Persons

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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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• This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.

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  Passion, Evil, Age

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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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  Faith, Christian, Religious

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• Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion. Every one knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is willing to move.

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  Moving, Passion, Average

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• I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.

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  Party, Long, Soul

  Soren Kierkegaard's journal entry, March 1836.

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