One must not think slightingly of the paradoxicalโฆfor the paradox is the source of the thinkerโs passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
Soren KierkegaardIf anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believedthen he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Mรผnchhausen.
Soren KierkegaardTo cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
Soren KierkegaardIn the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin.
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