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Christ and History by Soren Kierkegaard 1850

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Soren Kierkegaard wrote about creating silence in his 1851 book For Self-Examination

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This is a short excerpt from Soren Kierkegaard’s work, The Present Age.

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Soren Kierkegaard published Works of Love in 1847. He discusses loving yourself in the right way in this short excerpt.

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Soren Kierkegaard published Stages on Life’s Way in 1845.

God created man in his image, and in return man creates God in his, declares Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) ...

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learn not only to resort to grace but to resort to it in relation to the use of grace.

Soren Kierkegaard, Practice in Christianity, 1850 Hong p. 8

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It is in fact Christian love that discovers and knows that the neighbor exists and, what is the same thing, that everyone is the neighbor. If it were not a duty to love, the concept “neighbor” only then is the selfishness in preferential love rooted out and the equality of the eternal preserved.

Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love 1847 p. 44

To bring about similarity among people in the world, to apportion to people, if possible equally, the conditions of temporality, is indeed something that preoccupies worldliness to a high degree. Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love, p. 74

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if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. in the true handling of knowledge men ought not to fall either on the one side into the vein of Velleius the Epicurean, nor, on the other side, into Socrates, his ironical doubting of all things; but to propound things sincerely with more or less asseveration, as they stand in a man’s own judgment proved more or less.

Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning 1605

Velleius the Epicurean was one of the disputants in Cicero’s On the Nature of the Gods

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Just as that freedom-loving nation of North America has invented the most cruel punishment, silence, so a liberal and open-minded age has invented the most illiberal chicaneries-torchlight processions at night, acclamation three times a day, a triple hip-hip-hurrah for the great ones, and similar lesser chicaneries for humble folk. The principle of sociality is precisely illiberal.

Soren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, 1846, Hong P. 7-8