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SCIENCE AND POLITICS are the two false paths for Christianity; the latter is the most dangerous because it can become so popular. [1851]

She was preoccupied not with herself, but in herself, and this preoccupation afforded infinite rest and peace to her soul. [Either/Or, VOL. I: DIARY OF THE SEDUCER]

Sheer faith and confidence; God does not try people beyond their powers. [1849]

Silence concealed in silence is suspect, arouses suspicion, almost as if one were bearing witness to something, at least to the fact that one is silent. But silence hidden in the most definitive talent for conversation--now there's silence for you! ["About Myself", 1854]

Since earliest childhood an arrow of grief has been buried in my heart. As long as it stays there I am ironic--if it is drawn out I'll die. [1847]

...since every miracle is one of faith, what wonder, therefore, that, along with faith, miracles too are abolished! [Works of Love]

Since I wrote that little book "so heretics couldn't understand it", offering any further enlightenment whatever would be out of character. [1843-4]

Slight, thin and delicate, denied practically all the physical conditions which, compared with others, could qualify me, too, as a whole human being; melancholy, sick in my mind, profoundly and inwardly a failure in many ways, I was given one thing: an eminently astute mind, presumably to keep me from being completely defenceless. ["About Myself", 1854]

So great is my unhappiness at this time that in my dreams I am indescribably happy. [1839]

So I have interpreted it in this way: the terms of salvation differ for every individual, every single solitary human being. There is a general proclamation of Christianity, but as far as the conditions of salvation are concerned every single individual must relate to God as a single individual. ["For Orientation on Christian Problems", 1854]

So, like a Cato, I shout at you my either/or, and yet not like a Cato, for my soul has not yet acquired the resigned coldness which he possessed. But I know that only this incantation, if I have the strength for it, will be capable of rousing you, not to an activity of thought, for of that you have no lack, but to earnestness of spirit. [Either/Or, VOL. II: EQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN THE AESTHETICAL AND THE ETHICAL IN THE COMPOSITION OF PERSONALITY]

So long as one is a child one has sufficient imagination, though it were for an hour in the dark room, to keep one's soul on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation; but when one is older, imagination easily has the effect of making one tired of the Christmas tree before one has a chance to see it. [Stages on Life's Way]