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• . . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

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  Truth, Crowds, Praise

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• What labels me, negates me.

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  Labels

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• A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

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  Happy, Lying, Reality

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• God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible is the battle, in a person's innermost being, between God and the world. The crowning risk involved lies in the possession of choice.

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  Christian, Lying, Order

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• There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

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  Hate, Evil, Suffering

  "Phaedo" by Plato,

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• The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.

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  Christian, Giving, Way

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• There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

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  Life, Book, People

  "Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper (January 17, 1837), 1959.

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• It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

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  Faith, Believe, Belief

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• How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's existence is demonstrated by way of subjection and submissiveness. Do you want to try and demonstrate that the king exists? Will you do so by offering a string of proofs, a series of arguments? No. If you are serious, you will demonstrate the king's existence by your submission, by the way you live. And so it is with demonstrating God's existence. It is accomplished not by proofs but by worship. Any other way is but a thinker's pious bungling.

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  Christian, Kings, Offering

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• Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.

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  Mean, Roots, Evil

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• Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

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  Past, People, Pleasure

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• Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence.

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  Truth, Kissing, Emergencies

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• Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

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  Smile, God, Children

  Journal entry (translated by Alexander Dru, 1938).

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• If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

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  Life, Success, Wine

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• May new sufferings torment your soul.

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  Soul, Suffering, May

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.

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  Fighting, Men, Two

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• A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.

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  Christian, Mean, Decision

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• to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

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  Winning, Mind, Have Faith

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• Genius never desires what does not exist.

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  Desire, Doe, Genius

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• ...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness.

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  Christian, Offering, Giving

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• To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

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  World, Unhappiness, Easier

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• It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.

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  Care, Proud, Modest

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• I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

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  Regret, Philosophy, Two

  "Either/Or". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, February 20, 1843.

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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.

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  God, Believe, Grasping

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• Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

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  Deceiving, Deceiver

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