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• The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

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  Feelings, Mediocrity, Lovers

  Soren Kierkegaard (2017). “Philosophical Fragments”, p.24, Jovian Press

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• Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.

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  Despair, Tasks, Easy

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• In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin.

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  Past, Long, Individual

  "Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions" by Soren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

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  Mean, Reflection, Evil

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• Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.

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  Sadness, People, Dancing

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• This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.

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  Mean, Opposites, Views

  "The Sickness unto Death". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Part Two: Despair Is Sin, pp. 114 - 115, 1849.

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• I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.

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  Heaven, Soul, Bliss

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• It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

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  Men, Opposites, Imperfection

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1841.

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• What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.

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  Heart, Men, People

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• Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.

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  Life, Reality, Repetition

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• Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it. He therefore who has leaned rightly to be in anxiety has learned the most important thing.

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  Adventure, Men, Anxiety

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• Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.

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  Fate, Anxiety

  "The Concept of Anxiety". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 96-97, 1844.

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• A curiously interested observer sees a great deal, a scientifically interested observer is worthy of all honor, and anxiously interested observer sees what others do not see, but a crazy observer sees perhaps the most, his observation is more intense and more persistent, just as the senses of certain animals are sharper than those of man.

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  Crazy, Men, Animal

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• I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.

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  Thinking, Whole

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Fear and Trembling”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler

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  Girl, Sight, Doe

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• The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.

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  Ideas, Important, Dies

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• Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it

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  Believe, Men, Sublime

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• But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.

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  Doubt, Sometimes, Loud

  Soren Kierkegaard, George Pattison (2010). “Spiritual Writings: A New Translation and Selection”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe

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  Christian, Believe, People

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• What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

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  Beautiful, Sky, Differences

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• This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

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  Self, Miracle, Scientist

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• You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

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  Pain, Despair, Care

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• Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I .

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  Ideas, Mind, Irony

  "Journals and Papers". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, 1967.

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• When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

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  Answers

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• The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

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  Inspire, Tasks, Noble

  "Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Vol. 1 A-E" edited and translated by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, (p. 303), 1967.

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