Ifs Quote by Donald Barthelme

“I am poor—you are my riches; dark—you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After all, it…

— Søren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of…

— George Pattison

“I never really saw the celerity of your heart When steadily fighting off the Kierkegaardian part I listened to Plutarch While you threw out…

— Criss Jami

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

— Rollo May

I ... had what Kierkegaard called 'the sickness of infinitude,' wandering from one path to another with no real recognition that I was embarked…

— Peter Matthiessen

“I venture to say Kierkegaard meant that truth has lost its force with us and horrible pain and evil must teach it to us…

— Saul Bellow

“It was not surprising that after the war Dostoevsky was linked to Kierkegaard as a prophet of social resignation.”

— Martin Jay

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 and meet…

— George Pattison

“What is particularly striking about his reconstruction and criticisms of the traditional account of friendship is that he finds it deficient not only by…

— Graham Smith

“And therefore, all of those for whom authentic transformation has deeply unseated their souls must, I believe, wrestle with the profound moral obligation to…

— Ken Wilber

“I would have liked to say, "I'm a doctor," to those who asked me what I did, doctors being the current purveyors of magic…

— Yann Martel

“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’. ‘Crab soup’…

— Slavoj Žižek

“As Kierkegaard said, “To venture causes anxiety; not to venture is to lose oneself.” I”

— Gregg Krech

“My love consumes me. Only my voice is left, a voice which has fallen in love with you whispers to you everywhere that I…

— Søren Kierkegaard