Genius never desires what does not exist.
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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really enjoys the bitterness of failure.Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
To live thus to cram today with eternity and not wait the next day the Christian has learnt and continues to learn (for the Christian is always learning) from the Pattern. How did He manage to live without anxiety for the next day He who from the first instant of His public life, when He stepped forward as a teacher, knew how His life would end, that the next day was His crucifixion knew this while the people exultantly hailed Him as King (ah, bitter knowledge to have at precisely that moment) knew, when they were crying, Hosanna, at His entry into Jerusalem, that they would cry, 'Crucify Him', and that it was to this end that He made His entry. He who bore every day the prodigious weight of this superhuman knowledge how did He manage to live without anxiety for the next day.
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Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause that it must be lived forward.
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The essentially Christian is certainly the highest and the supremely highest, but, mark well, in such a way that to the natural man it is an offense. Anyone who, in defining the essentially Christian as the highest, omits the middle term of offense sins against it, is guilty of presumptuousness.... The way to the essentially Christian goes through offense. This does not mean that the approach to the essentially Christian should be to be offended by itthis would indeed be another way of preventing oneself from grasping the essentially Christianbut the offense guards the approach to the essentially Christian. Blessed is he who is not offended at it.
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To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is an unchristian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what not, it was the work of love which was his life.
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I divide my time as follows half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
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