Søren Kierkegaard

arane: “I have just now come from a party where I was its life...

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:20:00 -0500

“I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth’s orbit - and wanted to shoot myself.”

— Soren Kierkegaard (Journal Entry for March, 1836)

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Sat, 22 Sep 2012 23:15:19 -0400

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:17:11 -0500

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

- Soren Kierkegaard (via matthallock)

"Listen to the newborn infant’s cry in the hour of birth - see the death struggles in the final hour..."

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:44:34 -0500

“Listen to the newborn infant’s cry in the hour of birth - see the death struggles in the final hour - and then declare whether what begins and ends in this way can be intended as enjoyment.”

- Soren Kierkegaard (via yourealightagainmydear)

lethalforthecity: Boredom is the root of all evil - the...

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:37:45 -0500

lethalforthecity:

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard kinda reminds me of the nerdy skinny little short guys I always have in my classes that I secretly kind of want to make out with a little bit but instead I just avoid eye contact with them.

Really confused as to why Obama got a Tumblr.

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:08:29 -0400

reblog to cast your ballot!

"It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in..."

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:52:57 -0400

“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”

- Søren Kierkegaard (via sircrowley and good-morning-fire-eater)

Kierkegaard is my favorite philosopher and something of a kindred spirit. Because of things like this. Story. Of. My life.

(via chaptertwelve)

"Pleasure disappoints, possibility never."

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:53:02 -0400

““Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.””

- Søren Kierkegaard (via lethalforthecity)

"The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have."

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:35:49 -0400

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.”

- Søren Kierkegaard (via lethalforthecity)

"Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down into the yawning abyss..."

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:24:29 -0400

“Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down into the yawning abyss becomes dizzy. But what is the reason for this? It is just as much in his own eye as in the abyss, for suppose he had not looked down. Hence, anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to posit the synthesis and freedom looks down into its own possibility, laying hold of finiteness to support itself. Freedom succumbs to dizziness. Further than this, psychology cannot and will not go. In that very moment everything is changed, and freedom, when it again rises, sees that it is guilty. Between these two moments lies the leap, which no science has explained and which no science can explain. He who becomes guilty in anxiety becomes as ambiguously guilty as it is possible to become.”

- Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety (1884)

"The greatest lie of all is the feeling of firmness beneath our feet. We are at our most honest when..."

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:01:41 -0400

“The greatest lie of all is the feeling of firmness beneath our feet. We are at our most honest when we are lost”

- Søren Kierkegaard (via mattressesunderwater)

"Selvet er ikke bare en gave, det er også en opgave"

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:13:49 -0500

“Selvet er ikke bare en gave, det er også en opgave”

- “The self is not just a gift, it is also a task”

Søren Kierkegaard, Sickness Unto Death

Fuck Yeah Existentialism: An Existential Term a Day

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:29:25 -0500

Fuck Yeah Existentialism: An Existential Term a Day:

rockyourheart:

fuckyeahexistentialism:

The hedgehog’s dilemma, or sometimes the porcupine dilemma, is an analogy about the challenges of human intimacy. It describes a situation in which a group of hedgehogs all seek to become close to one another in order to share their heat during cold weather. However, once accomplished, they…

*pshhhh*

"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars; the men they detest..."

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:51:49 -0500

“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”

- H.L. Mencken (via dxo)

"Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!"

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:02:09 -0500

“Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!”

- Ram Dass (via commondense)

thisishowitgoes: retrogasm: ratak-monodosico: EXISTENTIALISM ...

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:47:15 -0500

thisishowitgoes:

retrogasm:

ratak-monodosico:

EXISTENTIALISM

You never know when an existential moment is going to strike you. Then you realize that you alone are responsible for choosing that life inside a cubical filled with hatred, despair and an overwhelming desire to toss your boss on an 8 foot thumb tack…

Oh.

"If someone told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine of..."

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:46:50 -0500

“If someone told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine of them would be blank. On the last page I would write, “I recognize only one duty and that is to love.” And as far as everything else is concerned, I say no.”

- Albert Camus (via azspot)

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they...

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:02:23 -0500

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:52:29 -0500

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”

- Albert Camus (via kathrynsoloway)

Camus was a dick.

"I ask: what does it mean when we continue to behave as though all were as it should be, calling..."

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:51:10 -0500

“I ask: what does it mean when we continue to behave as though all were as it should be, calling ourselves Christians according to the New Testament, when the ideals of the New Testament have gone out of life? The tremendous disproportion which this state of affairs represents has, moreover, been perceived by many. They like to give it this turn: the human race has outgrown Christianity.”

- Me