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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

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  Relationship, Aquariums, Dating

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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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• Without risk, faith is an impossibility.

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  Risk, Trying, Impossibility

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• There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.

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  Abuse, Wish, Bears

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• What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

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  Laughter, What If, Tears

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

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  Travel, Stars, Fall

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• Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

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  Truth Is, Individual

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• Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.

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  Bird, Lilies, Kingdoms

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• Where there are two people, there is untruth.

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  Spiritual, Two, People

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• Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

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  Wine, Possibility

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• ...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.

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  Christian, Order, Gains

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• I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

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  Self, Fishing, Monsters

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• The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.

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  Immortality, Conscious, Scholarly

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• The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

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  Ideas, Existentialism, Willing

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, (Journals 1A), August 1, 1835.

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• Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.

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  Suicide, Suicidal, Long

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• In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse!

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  Gratitude, Grateful, May

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• It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.

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  Faith, Knowledge, Historical

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• Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

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  Friendship, Jobs, Comfort

  "Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper (1849), 1959.

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• There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

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  Sorrow, Comfort

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “Fear and Trembling”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith is the highest passion in a man.

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  Passion, Men, Highest

  "Fear and Trembling". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Epilogue, 1843.

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• I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

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  Frustration, Games, Chess Game

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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