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“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 for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.”

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“What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?”

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Source: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.”

Sören Kierkegaard book Fear and Trembling

Source: Fear and Trembling

“Don't forget to love yourself.”

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Variant: ..... love yourself.

“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.”

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“For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”

Sören Kierkegaard book Fear and Trembling

Source: Fear and Trembling

“Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility”

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“For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.”

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“When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?”

Sören Kierkegaard book Fear and Trembling

Source: Fear and Trembling

“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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“My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.”

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Source: Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.”

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“Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.”

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Source: The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

“Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing”

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“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight to avoid this?”

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Variant: Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?
Source: Either/Or, Part I