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Søren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling (1843)

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Variant translation: But the highest passion in a human being is faith

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The relief in speaking is that it translates me into the universal.

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If the ethical – that is, social morality – is the highest … then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

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The absurd... the fact that with God everything is possible. The absurd does not belong to the distinctions that lie within the proper compass of the understanding. It is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

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

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Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard
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Born: May 5, 1813
Died: November 11, 1855 (aged 42)
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