1. Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ) was a prolific 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian. Kierkegaard strongly criticised both the Hegelianism of his time, and what he saw as the empty formalities of the Danish church. Much of his work deals with more..

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#Truth

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#Laughter

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard:No human being is able to say, of his own and by himself, what sin is, for sin is the very thing he is in. All his talk about sin is at bottom a glossing over sin, an excuse, a sinful extenuation. (p. 127) #Judgment and Judges

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#Excellence

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#Love

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#Humor

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#Pain

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#Time and Time Management

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#Life and Living

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard:In spiritual terms the human being does not arrive over the years and as a matter of course at anything. No idea could be more directly opposed to spirit. (p. 90) #Spirit and Spirituality

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard:What feelings, understanding and will a person has depends in the last resort upon what imagination he has — how he represents himself to himself, that is, upon imagination. (pp ) #Imagination

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard:Sin, however common to all, does not gather men together into a common concept, into an association or partnership (no more than out in the graveyard the multitude of the dead form a society), but splits people up into individuals and fastens hold of every individual as a sinner. (p. 153) #Sin

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#Genius

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#Life and Living

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard:If sin is ignorance, then sin does not really exist, for sin is precisely consciousness; if sin is ignorance of what is right, and one then does what is wrong because one does not know what is right, then no sin has occurred. (p. 121) #Sin

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard:What a dangerous objection it would be against Christianity, therefore, if paganism had a definition of sin which Christianity had to acknowledge was correct. (p. 122) #Christians and Christianity

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard:Philosophical Fragments (1844) #Philosophers and Philosophy

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#Learning

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard:He who says without pretence that he despairs is, after all, a little nearer, a dialectical step nearer being cured than all those who are not regarded and who do not regard themselves as being in despair. (p. 56) #Despair

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#Friends and Friendship

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