Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.

Soren Kierkegaard

• Magic
• I Believe
• Authority
• Suffers
• Caricature

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• Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

  

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• Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

  

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• The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

  

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• You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

  

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• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

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• I believe in eating what I like and sweating it out in the gym.

  

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• I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

  

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• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

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• Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

  

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• I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

  

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• I believe that shows should be shot where they take place.

  

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• I believe in traditional marriage.

  

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• The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University.

  

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• I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here.

  

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• There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.

  

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• Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

  

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• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  

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• I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.

  

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• Authority is no source for Truth.

  

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• To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

  

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• In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage.

  

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• I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.

  

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• The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Magic
  • I Believe
  • Authority