Danish - Philosopher | May 5, 1813 - November 11, 1855
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
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