Kierkegaard, Dont Quote Me On That!
God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing
God
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The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
Happiness
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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.
Will
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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.
Will
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
You
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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
Love Time
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Confidence is the present tense of hope.
Hope
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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?
You Life Think
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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.
You
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Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.
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Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask…
You
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The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.
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Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.
Life Death
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The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.
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The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
Future Past Never
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It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.
Love
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Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see
Love Think
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It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won’t be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.
You Trying
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Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes–but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.
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To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.
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For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
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A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
Love
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It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.
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I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
God I
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People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
Happiness
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
Future Never
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
You
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Believe
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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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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.
Dreams
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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.
Life Death
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
Heart I
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Life
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Me Will I
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Personality
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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
You
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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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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
Death
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Like Tradition
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Believe
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
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During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
Life
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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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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
Love
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Past Time Happiness
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Once you label me you negate me.
You Life Me
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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.
I
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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.
Life
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
God Nature Change
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Never
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
Will
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Like Heart Beautiful Music
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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.
Happiness
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Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Love
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Living
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Me
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Will Heart
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
You
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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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.
God Believe I
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
You Life Living
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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
You God
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Life Will Beautiful
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Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
You Change
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Fear Happiness
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Life
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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.
You Will I
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth – look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
Me
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To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Life
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
Love Yourself
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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