Kierkegaard Quotes

14 quotes by 10 authors

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has… — Rollo May
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone. — Vernon Howard
Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself. Ego,… — Kenny Smith
Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance. — Hannah Arendt
What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning. — Rollo May
[Kierkegaard] did not care for large public events because every crowd is in itself an untruth. The only way out is isolation, aloofness. Only the… — Mati Unt
Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement â€“ or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them.… — Rollo May
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning… — Rollo May
I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made me get up… — Mario Savio
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or… — Georg Brandes
Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be… — Douglas Coupland
According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are… — Jostein Gaarder
Kierkegaard also said that truth is `subjective`. By this he did not mean it doesn't matter what we think or believe. He meant that the… — Jostein Gaarder
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. --Soren Kierkegaard — Soren Kierkegaard

Who Wrote These Kierkegaard Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 14 Kierkegaard Quotes as follows: