Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take of…

Soren Kierkegaard
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Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?
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Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element. ✨ Soren Kierkegaard (1959). Either/ Or
to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.
The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die. ✨ The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, (Journals 1A), August 1, 1835.
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him. ✨ Journals. Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper (1841), 1959.
...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the same time has a fatherly concern for humankind. Though God has lowered Himself to bein … ▶

Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?

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