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Something Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
- And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself,…
- Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more…
- There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite…
- Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression…
- An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get…
- No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to…
- Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius.…
- It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.
- Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried,…
- When you say 'Yes' or promise something, you can very easily deceive yourself and others also, as if you had already done what you promised.…
- And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly…
- Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.
- Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last…
- People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an…
- In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.
- How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations…
- In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly…
- This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
- Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me.…
- The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to…
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- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
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