Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

  

  Barrett Foa
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• There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
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• How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
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• I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

  

  Rachel Platten
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• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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• I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Know
  • Hard

• Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Try

• I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Live
  • Never
  • Head

• We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Justice
  • New
  • Environmental

• To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of the most original and innovative storytelling around.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Writing
  • Home
  • True

• Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Words
  • Control

• 'You need not fear where you are going when you know Jesus is going with you.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Fear
  • Jesus

• When does the building of the Spirit really begin to appear in a man's heart? It begins, so far as we can judge, when he first pours out his heart to God in prayer.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Heart
  • Prayer

• It's those who lie outside ordinary experience who have the most to teach us.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Experience

• The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women

• Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Death

• As I was telling my husb- As I was telling President Bush.

  

  Condoleezza Rice

• I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Truth

• Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Truth

• The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • History
  • Liberty
  • Authority

• "Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Truth
  • Forget
  • Responsible

• If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Live
  • Age
  • Best

• It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Truth
  • Destiny
  • Authority