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• If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Forget, Ifs

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and
  get under way.

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  Important, Battle, Half

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• Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it.

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  Christian, Dream, Struggle

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• It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.

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  Punishment, Jail, Solitude

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• In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He only sees each individual

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  Eye, Crowds, Spirit

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• The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.

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  Christian, Teacher, Teaching

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• If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Silence

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• God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.

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  Fear, Thinking, Atheism

  "Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1846.

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• Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

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  Death, Struggle, Men

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• Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

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  Prayer, Silent

  Soren Kierkegaard (1956). “The Prayers of Kierkegaard”, p.206, University of Chicago Press

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• God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

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  God, Religious, Doe

  "Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper, p. 59 (July 7, 1838), 1959.

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• A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.

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  Believe, Thinking, Fire

  "Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard as quotes in "The Point of View" by Robert L. Perkins, (p. 241), 2010.

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• The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

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  Despair, Form

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• Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

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  Happiness, Patience, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• Future is everything that past has forgotten.

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  Past, Forgotten

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• My standpoint is armed neutrality.

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  Neutrality, Standpoint

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• I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

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  Self, Fishing, Monsters

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• We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction

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  Destruction, Ifs

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• The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.

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  Limits, Persons, Resourceful

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• My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

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  Faithful, Melancholy, Sweetheart

  "Either/Or". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, translated in "Bulletin: Comparative literature series", Nr. 3, Texas University (1912), p. 43, 1843.

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• The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.

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  Love, Needs, Should

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• Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

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  Deceiving, Deceiver

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• Hope is a passion for the possible.

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  Passion

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• Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

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  Hope, Falling In Love, Giving Up

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• Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

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  Despair, Hiding, Hiding Place

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