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Letter "S" » Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
«Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
concepts, Histories, homesickness, ravage, ravaged, ravages, retain, scenes, withstanding
«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 animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
breeds, fall into, gape, gaped, gapes, gaping, garish, grotesque, grotesques, stupor
«Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Irony
| Keywords:
cherished, disciplinarian, ironies, irony
«I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Regret
| Keywords:
friendly, situations
«Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic -- if it is pulled out I shall die.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
barb, barbed, earliest, early childhood, ironic, lodged, lodging, pulled, stays
«Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
dean, deans, Dean Swift, inmate, inmates, insane asylum, realizes, swift, The Dean
«Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us -- but not suckle us.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
dry nurse, nurse, suckle, suckled, suckling
«What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.»
«Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.»
«Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
eternally, happily, secured
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