Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.

Soren Kierkegaard

• Doubt
• I Believe
• Acknowledge
• Possess

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• My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Career
  • Childhood
  • River

• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Father
  • Man
  • Wife

• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • King
  • Ignore

• I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Natural
  • Dress
  • National

• If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Universe

• As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.

  

  Talisa Soto
  • Challenge
  • Learn
  • Look

• My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.

  

  Vijay
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

  

  Sallust
  • Up
  • Great
  • Just

• I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Done
  • Most

• Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Internet
  • Information

• I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Rescue
  • Bull
  • Adorable

• Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Women
  • Teenagers
  • Empower

• Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • You
  • motivation
  • Succeed

• To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Beautiful
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• The Olympics are an opportunity to redefine the country, but the message is always wrong.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of my colleagues in the university's classics department were men, and my office at the all-women's college was in the dorm.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Men
  • Women
  • College

• There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart

• When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.

  

  Christian Kane
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Mind

• When you believe in yourself, and you always give 100% in a relationship, you're very confident in the value of your love. But for some people, there's that feeling that the grass is always greener.

  

  Ciara
  • People
  • Believe
  • Feeling

• Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Beauty

• The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Animal
  • Intelligent

• I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Doubt
  • I Believe
  • Acknowledge