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Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855, was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author widely considered to be the first existentialist.

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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

– Søren Kierkegaard

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There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

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Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

– Søren Kierkegaard

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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

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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.

– Søren Kierkegaard

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

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Only by investing and speaking your vision with passion can the truth, one way or the other, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world.

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

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Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

– Søren Kierkegaard

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