Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Religious
  • Speech
  • Charming

• Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Money
  • Creation
  • Mathematics

• I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Pride
  • Wealth
  • Creation

• With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Creation

• Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Why
  • Me
  • Forever

• People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Job
  • Creation

• I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Heart
  • New
  • Creation

• Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Creation

• I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • Great
  • Money

• In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Freedom
  • Evil
  • Religious

• When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Creation

• To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle. We mend. We women turn things inside out and set things right. We salvage what we can of human garments and piece the rest into blankets. Sometimes our stitches stutter and slow. Only a woman's eyes can tell. Other times, the tension in the stitches might be too tight because of tears, but only we know what emotion went into the making. Only women can hear the prayer.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

  

  Courtney Love
  • Music
  • Creation
  • Dumb

• I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • True

• Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Rest
  • Creation

• In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

  

  Aristotle
  • Speech
  • Making
  • Producing

• My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

  

  Plato
  • People
  • Truth
  • Speech

• Geometry existed before creation.

  

  Plato
  • Creation
  • Geometry
  • Existed

• Progressives must not portray all abortions as tragedies. . . Senator Hillary Clinton, in a 2005 speech commendable for setting forth a prochoice, pro-prevention, pro-family agenda, took the aspiration a step in the wrong direction when she called for policy changes so that abortion 'does not ever have to be exercised or only in very rare circumstances.

  

  Dawn Johnsen
  • Direction
  • Speech
  • Abortion

• My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.

  

  Ewan MacColl
  • Talking
  • Function
  • I Want

• I feel like the knight in an ancient romance as, wrapped in his shining armor, after performing a thousand astonishing feats throughout the world, he meets a ragged, starving herdsman, who, never leaving his pasture, subdues and controls horrible beasts with his bare hands, and with prodigious courage.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Romance
  • Controls
  • Beasts

• We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

  

  Sonny Bono Sonny & Cher
  • People
  • Environment
  • Creatures

• How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Creation
  • Speech
  • Degrade