Soren Kierkegaard | life
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Soren Kierkegaard | happiness
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
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Soren Kierkegaard | great
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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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.
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Soren Kierkegaard | great
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
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Soren Kierkegaard | good
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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Soren Kierkegaard | god
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.
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Soren Kierkegaard | god
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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