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• Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He places Himself, so to say, on the same level of choice with the world, just so that we may be able to choose; that God, if language dare speak thus, woos humankind - that He, the eternally strong one, woos sapless humanity? Yet, how insignificant is the young lover's choice between her pursuers by comparison with this choice between God and the world.

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  Christian, Strong, Expression

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• This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.

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  Mean, Opposites, Views

  "The Sickness unto Death". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Part Two: Despair Is Sin, pp. 114 - 115, 1849.

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• The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.

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  Life, Falling In Love, Negative

  "Stages on Life's Way" by Søren Kierkegaard, Hong, (p. 111), April 30, 1845.

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• The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.

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  Believe, Men, Suffering

  "Stages on Life's Way". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, 1845.

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• Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.

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  Doors, Certainty

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• Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

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  Subjectivity, Irony, Qualifications

  "On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1841.

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• It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

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  Courage, Self Confidence, Men

  "The Concept of Irony: With Constant Reference to Socrates". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, Collins, "Irony as a Mastered Moment: The Truth of Irony," pt. 2, 1966.

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• It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists.

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  Artist, Retreat, Cases

  "Truth as screenplay by Trace William Cowen". Interview with Carrie Seitznger, March 14, 2014.

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• One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

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  Men, People, Speech

  Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “Papers and Journals”, p.62, Penguin UK

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• The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

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  Secret, Paleontology, Records

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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.

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  Men, Bores You, Boredom

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.

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  May, Gypsy, Tomorrow

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• Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.

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  Party, Passion, Third Parties

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• My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

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  Clever, Philosophy, Expectations

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• Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

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  Media, Space, Elements

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

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  Philosophy, Offering, Favors

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• Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.

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  Despair, Weakness, Lawyer

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• What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

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  What Matters, Ideas, Needs

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, (Journals 1A), August 1, 1835.

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• ...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on having a penny without God, wants to have a penny all for himself. He thereby chooses mammon. A penny is enough, the choice is made, he has chosen mammon; that it is little makes not the slightest difference. The love of God is hatred of the world and love of the world hatred of God.

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  Christian, Thinking, World And Love

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• Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.

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  Dream, People, Important

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• If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is high time that I take advantage of this and promptly begin with the quadrille--people would presumably laugh a little at him, but in the world of spirit this is very plausible. What, then, is education? I believed it is the course the individual goes through in order to catch up with himself, and the person who will not go through this course is not much helped by being born in the most enlightened age.

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  Order, People, Laughing

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• The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

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  Self, Relation, Relate

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.

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  Children, Sadness, Deceit

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• Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

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  Love, Sea, Two

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• Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Nurse

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