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• That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sight into eternity.

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  Journey, Sight, Bridges

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• Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

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  Birthday, Dream, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.

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  Religious, Atheism, Doubters

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• Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.

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  Done, Christianity, Awareness

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• It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

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  Positive Attitude, Interesting, World

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• Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

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  Way, Anxious, Right Way

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• People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion.

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  Spring, Struggle, Fighting

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• Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

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  Maturity, Discovery, Critical Moments

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• The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

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  Believe, Men, Ideas

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• The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

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  Track, Justice, Thought Provoking

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• On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

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  Heart, Blushing, Cheeks

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• ...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

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  Past, Remember, Made

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• A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

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  Men, Seducing

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• There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.

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  Reflection, Two, Lightning

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• O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.

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  Reform, Doe, Matter

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• No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.

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  Love, Life, Beautiful

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

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  Lying, Men, World

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• Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.

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  Pain, Iron, Giving

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• The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.

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  Highest

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• God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts.

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  Order, Special, Purpose

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• Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?

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  Thinking, Midnight, Littles

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• It is impossible to exist without passion

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  Passion, Impossible

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• The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

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  Life Lesson, Men, Numbers

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• I would have perished had I not perished.

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• A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

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  Truth, Race, Age

  Soren Kierkegaard (1966). “On Authority and Revelation”

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