Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?

  

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• My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.

  

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• My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

  

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• It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.

  

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• A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.

  

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• I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

  

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• I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.

  

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• I'm still very much Kate.

  

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• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

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• If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.

  

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• When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

  

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• I also take vitamins because I think when you take care of yourself on the inside it makes a big difference in your skin.

  

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• I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

  

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• You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

  

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• A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

  

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• In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money that's coming in now from television rights, there's no need for them to be greedy. Look after the supporters; make sure they can still afford to go and watch football.

  

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• The French are … the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation of Europe, and the one that is surest to inspire admiration, hatred, terror, or pity, but never indifference.

  

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• Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

  

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• Unilever, Nestle and SAB Miller are all taking a long-term approach to investing in sustainable resource consumption. Each is driving through better resource management, which is expected to yield positive returns in the future.

  

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• I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

  

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• I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

  

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• I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)

  

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• Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call 'the art of medicine.'

  

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• My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Philosophy
  • Clever
  • Expectation