Soren Kierkegaard
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“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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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.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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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.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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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.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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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.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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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.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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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.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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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.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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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.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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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.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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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.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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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.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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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. – Soren Kierkegaard
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