Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Animal
  • Coffee

• It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • May
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Car
  • Waiting

• It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Know
  • Me
  • Stupid

• As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Long
  • Live
  • Day

• Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Me
  • Always
  • Mad

• The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Work
  • Real
  • War

• I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Remember
  • American
  • Reading

• I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Look

• When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Death
  • Day

• One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Music
  • Fun

• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Taken

• I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • City
  • Simple

• I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Science
  • Study
  • Language

• The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Own
  • Run
  • Soviet

• Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Family
  • May

• You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Remember
  • You
  • Forget

• I don't want to be on the Internet.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Want
  • Internet

• I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Happy

• Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Up
  • Think
  • Nice

• I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Think
  • Day
  • Outdoor

• To talk about “the image” is to think metaphysically, whatever you do.

  

  Georges Didi-Huberman
  • Think
  • Talk
  • Image

• This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Think
  • Discover
  • Paradox