Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

Soren Kierkegaard

• Trouble
• Duty
• Paradox
• Human Understanding

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• I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

  

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• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

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• I'm not looking to shock anyone.

  

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• I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.

  

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• I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

  

  Ralph Ellison
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• Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'

  

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• We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.

  

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• Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

  

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• Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• I am the best. There is nobody better than me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.

  

  Xavier Niel
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• Every single day, everywhere we went, people were coming up to me and Boyd repeatedly and saying, 'We're life-long Democrats, but we're voting for you. We've never voted for a Republican in our life.'

  

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• I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

  

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• If I was Simon Cowell for a day, I’d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Then…pour ketchup on myself!

  

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• The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

  

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• There are many people who are so inclined to say "no" that the "no" always precedes whatever we say to them. This negative quality makes them so disagreeable that, even if they do what we want them to or agree with what we say, they always lose the pleasure that they might have received had they not started off so badly.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
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• It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Trouble
  • Duty
  • Paradox