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• Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

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  Sympathy, Sympathetic, Dread

  Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay (2014). “The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

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  Men, Twenties, Existence

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

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  Faith, Christian, Religious

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• In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.

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  Truth, Order, Clothes

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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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• ...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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• This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.

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  Passion, Evil, Age

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• If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.

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  Wine, Humble, Glasses

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

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  Firsts, Moral, Elevation

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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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• 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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• 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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• Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest) in the public worship of God, as it now is (with the claim that it is the Christianity of the New Testament), thou hast constantly one guilt the less, and that a great one: thou dost not take part in treating God as a fool by calling that the Christianity of the New Testament which is not the Christianity of the New Testament.

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  Art, Guilt, May

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

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• The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.

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  Women, Thinking, Tricks

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• Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.

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  Love Is, Men, Thinking

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• The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.

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  God, Ideas, Doe

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• Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.

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  Blessing, Wind, Boredom

  Soren Kierkegaard (2004). “Either/Or: A Fragment of Life”, p.195, Penguin UK

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• There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.

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  Christian, Religious, Opposites

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• However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.

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  Generations, How To Love, Humans

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• A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.

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  Self, Spirit, Relation

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• One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

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  Passion, Thinking, Feelings

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• ...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

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  Hate, Talking, People

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• Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

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  War, Flower, Adversity

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• To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to give away a ducat to every one of the poor - but let him also be stupid enough to begin this charitable undertaking of his with a defense in which he offers three good reasons in justification; and it will almost come to the point of people finding it doubtful whether indeed he is doing something good. But now for Christianity. Yes, the person who defends that has never believed in it.

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  Stupid, Men, Giving

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• The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency; there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance. . . .

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  Despair, Devil, Degrees

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