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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. – Soren Kierkegaard

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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. – Soren Kierkegaard

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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. – Max Planck

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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. – Rabindranath Tagore

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