Existentialism Quote by Søren Kierkegaard Download Open image ““To be a man, to live here in this world, is to be put on trial”” — Søren Kierkegaard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Existentialism Trials and temptations Trials-of-life
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“Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“We will establish a new land where man can assume that every individual man—not the mass of men but individual men—has inalienable right to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“If men are denied the chance to live in freedom, they will make their own freedom.” — Frank Sherry Copy Share Image
“I believe . . . that if our country ever comes into trial again, young men will spring up equal to the occasion, and… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“At vove er at miste fodfæstet et kort øjeblik - ikke at vove er at miste sig selv.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Who tricked me into this whole thing and leaves me standing here? Who am I? How did I get into the world? Why was… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.” — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“If a man had a little button sewn on the inner pocket of his coat 'on principle' his otherwise unimportant and quite serviceable action… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I stick my finger in existence — it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? How came I here? What is this… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“But there is a concerned guide, a knowing one, who attracts the attention of the wanderer, who calls out to him that he should… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“There is something frightful in the fact that the most dangerous thing of all, playing at Christianity, is never included in the list of… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Yet in another and still more definite sense despair is the sickness unto death. It is indeed very far from being true that, literally… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Sitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has sprung a leak, then… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception… — Armond White Copy Share Image
“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on earth.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“If we are unable to tolerate ourselves when we are alone, how can we expect anyone else to be enriched by our company? Before… — Gerald Corey Copy Share Image
