Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
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The world is all that is the case.
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The child learns to believe a host of things. I. e. It learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakeably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around it.
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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Ambition is the death of thought.
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I believe it might interest a philosopher, one who can think himself, to read my notes. For even if I have hit the mark only rarely, he would recognize what targets I had been ceaselessly aiming at.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
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