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Soren Kierkegaard

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Teacher

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Kierkegaard is saying that true thinkers embrace contradictions and difficult questions, which drive deeper understanding. Without this willingness to wrestle with paradox, a person simply becomes a teacher who passes on established knowledge rather than creating new insights.

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