The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.
Soren KierkegaardIn a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.
Soren KierkegaardSin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.
Soren KierkegaardWhat I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
Soren KierkegaardThe function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren KierkegaardThe daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.
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