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«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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