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• What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

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  Beautiful, Sky, Differences

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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.

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  Marriage, Wind, Weather

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• The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

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  Inspire, Tasks, Noble

  "Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Vol. 1 A-E" edited and translated by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, (p. 303), 1967.

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• What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.

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  Needs, Clear, Knows

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• Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I .

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  Ideas, Mind, Irony

  "Journals and Papers". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, 1967.

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• Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.

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  Fall, Sin, Dread

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• Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.

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  Despair, Tasks, Easy

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• Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.

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  Education, Teacher, May

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• The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

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  Understanding, Facts, Unexpected

  Fear and Trembling "Problemata: Preliminary Expectoration" (1843)

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• I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.

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  Heaven, Soul, Bliss

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• During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. By not risking at first one turns aside and serves trivialities; in the second case, by risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption.

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  Taken, Risk, Too Much

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• Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

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  Mean, Reflection, Evil

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• In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin.

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  Past, Long, Individual

  "Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions" by Soren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it

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  Believe, Men, Sublime

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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.

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  Friendship, Karma, Way

  SOREN KIERKEGAARD (1965). “THE LAST YEARS”

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• It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.

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  Life, Inspiring, Wisdom

  Diary (1843)

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• You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

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  Pain, Despair, Care

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• One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows through an idea in his mind is, and always will be, essentially unpopular. That is why Socrates was unpopular, though he did not use any special terms, for to grasp and hold his 'ignorance' requires greater vital effort than understanding the whole of Hegel's philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Ignorance, Expression

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• The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.

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  Ideas, Important, Dies

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• The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

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  Dream, Witty, Morning

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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.

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  Joy, Moments, Splendid

  "Either/or, Vol. 1". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, p. 20, 1987.

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• Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.

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  Attitude, Passion, Character

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• My sorrow is my castle.

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  Sorrow, Castles

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

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  Answers

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• Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.

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  Be Who You Are, Individual, Persons

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