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There are men who have an extraordinary talent for transforming everything into a matter of business, whose whole life is buisness, who fall in love, marry, listen to a joke, and admire a picture with the same industrious zeal with which they labor during business hours.  [Either/Or, VOL. I:  THE ROTATION METHOD]

There are no longer human beings, thinkers, lovers, etc.; the human race is enveloped by the press in a miasma of thoughts, emotions, moods, even conclusions, intentions which are nobody's, which belong to none and yet to all.  [1849]

There is a world of difference between the following two:  someone who happens to be ridiculed against his will, and someone who voluntarily demands it of those who idolized him; someone who for all his efforts never amounts to anything in the world, and someone who systematically prevents himself from amounting to anything in the world, etc.  ["About Me", 1854]

There is, after all, no human analogue of that majesty whose elevation is simply that nothing directly recognizable can express it but it can only be identified paradoxically.  ["Spirit--Appearance (Phenomenon), The Nearness of God--The Remoteness of God", 1854]

There is--and this is both the good and the bad in me--something spectral about me, something that makes it impossible for people to put up with me every day and have a real relationship with me.  ["About 'Her' ", 7 September 1849]

There is no good calling upon a Holger Danske or a Martin Luther; their day is over, and at bottom it is only the individual's laziness which makes a man long to have them back, a worldly impatience which prefers to buy something cheap, second-hand, rather than to buy the highest of all things very dear and first-hand.  It is worse than useless to found society after society, because negatively speaking there is something above them, even though the short-sighted member of the society cannot see it.  [
The Present Age]

There is no one anywhere, and that is why there is error everywhere.  [1848]

"There is no such thing as repetition"  ["Repitition:  An Essay in Experimental Psychology"]

There is only one relation to revealed truth:  believing it.
The fact that one believes can be proved in only one way:  by being willing to suffer for one's faith.  And the degree of one's faith is proved only by the degree of one's willingness to suffer for one's faith...
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The courage of their faith makes an impression upon the human race, leading it to the following conclusion:  What is able thus to inspire men to sacrifice everything, to venture life and blood, must be truth.  [
Attack Upon "Christendom"]

There must be something so blessed that it cannot be uttered in words--why otherwise were those men to whom something really great was revealed struck dumb?  [January 1837]
    
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