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Soren Kierkegaard – Jon B. Stewart | University of Copenhagen

Quotes

This section features a selection of key quotes by Kierkegaard.

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves.

– Journal, 1837

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed.

– The Sickness unto Death

It’s quite true what philosophy says, that life must be understood backwards. But one then forgets the other principle, that it must be lived forwards. A principle which, the more one thinks it through, precisely leads to the conclusion that life in time can never be properly understood, just because no moment can acquire the complete stillness needed to orient oneself backward.

– Søren Kierkegaard’s Papirer

My either/or does not in the first instance denote the choice between good and evil; it denotes the choice whereby one chooses good and evil or excludes them. Here the question is under what determinants one would contemplate the whole of existence and would oneself live.

– Either/Or

The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.

– Philosophical Fragments

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