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• To love another person is to help them love God.

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  Love, Life, Helping

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• A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

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  Deception, Promise, Doe

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• Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

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  Life Is, Backwards, Understood

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• The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.

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  Government, Evil, Choices

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• The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

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  Eye, Self, Disbelievers

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• Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

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  Workout, Truth, Inspiration

  "The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard" by Soren Kierkegaard, pt. 5, sct. 3, no 128, 1850.

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• Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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  Happiness, Fear, Creativity

  Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay (2014). “The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin”, p.75, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

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  World, Enough, Born

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• Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.

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  Air, Wind, People

  "Papers and Journals".

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• Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him.

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  Philosophy, Umpires, Directors

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• If you think you understand, it isn't God.

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  Thinking, Ifs

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• The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

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  Death, Tyrants, Political

  Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “Papers and Journals”, p.370, Penguin UK

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• All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Men, Shrewdness

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

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• And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

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  Opposites, Definitions, Sin

  Soren Kierkegaard (2004). “The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus”, p.111, Penguin UK

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• Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...

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  Midnight, Hours

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• Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

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  Dream, Sleep, Difficult

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• How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager—I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?

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  Choices, Rules And Regulations, World

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• The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.

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  Song, Giving Up, Sacrifice

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• The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.

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  Spiritual, Religious, Men

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• There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

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  Courage, Men, Getting High

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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.

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  Music, Beautiful, Heart

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• Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

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  Patience, Be Patient, Reap

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• The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.

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  Simple, Way, Christianity

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• ...the person who surrenders absolutely to God, with no reservations, is absolutely safe. From this safe hiding-place he can see the devil , but the devil cannot see him.

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  Christian, Devil, Safe

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• Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

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  Heart, Noble, Difficulty

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