Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.

Soren Kierkegaard

• God
• Christianity
• Demand
• Obedience
• Crimes

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• I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • She
  • Best
  • Talent

• You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • You
  • Know
  • Bus

• I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Change
  • Same

• I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Process

• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fate
  • Existence
  • Nothing

• What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I hate morning workout; I'm a night person more. But it's good to work out in the mornings because then you can have all day free.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Good
  • Work
  • Night

• I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Same

• I think people in power have a vested interest to oppose critical thinking.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Power

• I recalled when I worked in the woodsand the bars of Madras, Oregon.That short-haired joy and roughness-America-your stupidity.I could almost love you again.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • America
  • Joy

• Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Shadow

• You know, I would say Incomplete...but what I would say is the steps that we have taken in saving the auto industry, in making sure that college is more affordable and investing in clean energy and science and technology and research, those are all the things that we are going to need to grow over the long term.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Science
  • Energy

• They say I'm a conservative, but I consider myself I true liberal.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True

• Lawyers can make the worse appear the better cause, as though they were fresh from Leontine schools, and have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

  

  Lawyer
  • Innocent

• Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Life
  • Time
  • Heart

• Superman when he goes after someone is essentially not trying to beat them, he is trying to save them from themselves... You're looking at a God who walks amongst men!

  

  Max Landis
  • God
  • Men
  • Trying

• I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.

  

  Lennie James
  • God
  • School

• In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • History
  • Moral
  • Victory

• Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • God
  • Christianity
  • Demand