“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 backwards; but it must be lived forwards. --Soren Kierkegaard — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As Kierkegaard said, “To venture causes anxiety; not to venture is to lose oneself.” I” — Gregg Krech Copy Share Image
“It was not surprising that after the war Dostoevsky was linked to Kierkegaard as a prophet of social resignation.” — Martin Jay 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
“Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard said that life can only be understood backward but it must be lived forward.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“In zijn nederlaag', zegt Kierkegaard, 'vindt de gelovige zijn overwinning.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of… — Jostein Gaarder 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
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
“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
“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
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation,… — Charles E. Moore 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
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 ... 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
“Sartre, Kierkegaard, Heidegger: cool guys, smart, lotta meat between the ears on those fellas, and certainly trying to define who we are… — Edward Lee Copy Share Image
“The existent individual, as Kierkegaard defines him, is first of all he who is in an infinite relationship with himself and has… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In that chocolate side of town, in my blessed city of Sacramento, California - that was beginning of my death shudders, that's… — Cornel West 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
“Reality is the most effective mask of reality. Our fondest wish, attained, ceases to be our fondest wish. Success is the greatest… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“I record my life, sifting and trying to separate what is real from what I’ve dreamed. I have decided not to tell… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
“There are productive spirits who require many and great destinies or experience in order to produce a small work. There is a… — Georg Brandes 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
“Given his emphasis on human freedom it is no wonder why some champion Kierkegaard as the father of existentialism, a philosophy that… — Mark A. Tietjen Copy Share Image
“Love is everything. So, for one who loves, everything has ceased to have meaning in itself and only means something through the… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I would have liked to say, "I'm a doctor," to those who asked me what I did, doctors being the current purveyors… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Against the new leviathan, whether in the guise of universal suffrage, democracy, or of an equally fraudulent triumphant proletariat, he (Kierkegaard) pitted… — Malcolm Muggeridge 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
“As we read through this small pile of correspondence, a curious duplicity gradually emerges. In their language, the letters are among Kierkegaard’s… — Joakim Garff 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
“Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self, as well as creating in all the… — Rollo May 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
Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint. — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
“Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forward. —Kierkegaard” — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
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