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

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  Men, Seducing

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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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• 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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• Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

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  Beautiful, Adversity, People

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• I would have perished had I not perished.

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• Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.

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  Wind, Genius, Thunderstorm

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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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.

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  Opportunity, Reality, Vision

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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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• It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith.

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  Christian, Sacrifice, Doe

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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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• One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.

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  Tired, Thinking, Light

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• ... all comparisons injure.

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  Comparison

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• Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived forward. The more one thinks through this clause, the more one concludes that life in temporality never becomes properly understandable, simply because never at any time does one get perfect repose to take the stance - backward.

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  Life, Philosophy, Thinking

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• The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.

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  Thinking, Years, Pharisees

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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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• If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith.

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  Believe, Water, Wish

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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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• It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.

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  Exercise, Men, Thinking

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• All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

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  Essentials, Existence, Relate

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• ...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

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  Christian, Temptation, Satan

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• Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

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  Tombstone, Individuality, Inscriptions

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• To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

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  Thinking, Pace, Ridiculous

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• When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.

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  People, Tasks, Want

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