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Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
- Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
- The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
- The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
- The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
- There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
- Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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