The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.
("Sophie's World")
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If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
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According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are meaningful to the individual's life. It is important to find `the truth for me`.
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A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.àWe know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.
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