Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Priority
  • Possible
  • Spend

• The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Live
  • American

• You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Politics
  • Win

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• I'm not super into sports.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Sports
  • Super

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • God
  • Soul
  • Sky

• I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Important
  • Change
  • Walk

• This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time

• If wishes were stories, beggars would read...

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Wishes

• A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

  

  Edmund Burke

• 'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Long
  • Help
  • Lion

• I'm in the fourth row, signing autographs at your show.

  

  Eminem
  • Show
  • Autographs
  • Signing

• Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin, Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Lust

• You come out at night;That's when the energy comes.And the dark side's light,And the vampires roam.You strut your rasta wearAnd your suicide poemAnd a cross from a faithThat died before Jesus came.You're building a mystery.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Night
  • Energy
  • Light

• In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.

  

  Sadao Araki
  • Order
  • Southern
  • Sphere Of Influence

• Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Dark
  • Study
  • Thoughts

• You get older and come to the conclusion that it's a great gig making music. Even if you turn into an old gnarly fart, no one cares what you look like if you write good songs - the only gig is to sing well and perform.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• If I don’t speak truth I can’t seek truth.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Truth

• We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Science

• The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Truth
  • Trap
  • Capturing