Kierkegaard Quotes
14 quotes by 10 authors
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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
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Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
— Vernon Howard
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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
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Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.
— Hannah Arendt
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What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.
— Rollo May
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[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
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Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them.…
— Rollo May
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: