Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Girl
  • Know
  • Revenge

• I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Thought
  • Name

• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

  Oliver North
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Good
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• I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Power
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• I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Question
  • Mission
  • Linda

• I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Perfect
  • Laugh

• I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Time
  • Live
  • Place

• To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Once
  • Criminal
  • Disgrace

• Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Look
  • Memory
  • Activate

• The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

  

  Beck
  • Home
  • Year
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• We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Me
  • More
  • Towns

• All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Think
  • City
  • Leaving

• Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Live
  • Moments
  • Violence

• I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.

  

  Ted Allen
  • World
  • Understanding
  • New

• Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Political
  • Best
  • Legal

• My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Me
  • Always
  • Phone

• I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body... and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Heart
  • Hunting
  • Twilight

• Denying self isn't a one-time thing, but a daily task.

  

  Trip Lee
  • Time
  • Daily
  • Self

• On behalf of the American people, just let me say that we are proud to count Greece as one of our closest allies and one of our greatest friends.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Friends
  • American

• We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.

  

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  • Learning
  • Teach
  • Programming

• The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Self
  • Relation