“It was not surprising that after the war Dostoevsky was linked to Kierkegaard as a prophet of social resignation.” — Martin Jay Copy Share Image
“As Kierkegaard said, “To venture causes anxiety; not to venture is to lose oneself.” I” — Gregg Krech Copy Share Image
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are. -Soren Kierkegaard” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forward. —Kierkegaard” — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard said that life can only be understood backward but it must be lived forward.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“I like to quote the words of Kierkegaard, that 'life ia a poem that we are able to write ourselves; but a… — Nathan Soderblom Copy Share Image
“I never really saw the celerity of your heart When steadily fighting off the Kierkegaardian part I listened to Plutarch While you… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing… — Kate Racculia Copy Share Image
But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The practical consequence of Kierkegaard's depth psychology means that when I look at myself in the mirror, or when I contemplate my… — Mark A. Tietjen Copy Share Image
“What is particularly striking about his reconstruction and criticisms of the traditional account of friendship is that he finds it deficient not… — Graham Smith Copy Share Image
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“Preferential love seeks only those who share one's passions--the more similar the lovers the more fervent the love. By contrast, neighbour love… — Stephen Backhouse Copy Share Image
“It is with this thought that many believers would call up Kierkegaard's famous phrase, the 'leap of faith,' pictured perhaps as a… — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
I ... had what Kierkegaard called 'the sickness of infinitude,' wandering from one path to another with no real recognition that I… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“My love consumes me. Only my voice is left, a voice which has fallen in love with you whispers to you everywhere… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“It's only when we dare to experience the full anxiety of knowing that life doesn't go on forever that we can experience… — Thomas Cathcart Copy Share Image
“I venture to say Kierkegaard meant that truth has lost its force with us and horrible pain and evil must teach it… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“At the end of a life spent in the pursuit of knowledge Faust has to confess: "I now see that we can… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“They were beautiful books, sometimes very thick, sometimes very thin, always typographically exhilarating, with their welter of title pages, subheads, epigraphs, emphatic… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“...they had succumbed to an impersonal and anonymous mode of consciousness which precluded personal feeling and which was devoid of a secure… — Patrick Gardiner Copy Share Image
“Seen theologically, then, walking is an act of faith. Walking is, after all, interrupted falling.We see, we listen, we speak, and we… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Love has many positionings. Cordelia makes good progress. She is sitting on my lap, her arm twines, soft and warm, round my… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“And therefore, all of those for whom authentic transformation has deeply unseated their souls must, I believe, wrestle with the profound moral… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
“as in Heinrich Heine’s (a contemporary of Kierkegaard’s) well-known saying that one should value above everything else ‘freedom, equality and crab soup’.… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“I am poor—you are my riches; dark—you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I am poor—you are my riches; dark—you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“A Christian is supposed to be in the world, and yet not of the world--a Both/And as perplexing and demanding as the… — Therese Doucet Copy Share Image
Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought” — Johannes Climacus S ren Kierkagaard Copy Share Image
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. --Soren Kierkegaard — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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