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[Wikipedia] Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish Lutheran theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christianity, morality, ethics, psychology, love, and the philosophy of

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• Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds… Act
• 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… Inspirational
• For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a… Among
• 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… Advantage
• It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my… All
• The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever. Assured
• To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all. All
• In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet. Become Something
• Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people… All
• Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with… Demon
• I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men. Men
• What labels me, negates me. Funny
• The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because… Accordingly
• When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper? Answer
• If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. According
• The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now… Appropriately
• About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been… Another Piece
• 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… Child
• If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd. God
• Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility Heady
• No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual... Despondently
• It is very important in life to know when your cue comes. Cue
• No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot,… Ago
• To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time… Cheat
• My standpoint is armed neutrality. Armed

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