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"apparently he was plagued by melancholy and existential angst throughout his life. he believed that his personal despair and melancholic nature made him unfit for marriage. he also thought that his philosophical pursuits and his commitment to exploring the depths of the christian faith would be inco"
"If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the f"
""The lowest depth to which people can sink before God is defined by the word journalist." - Soren Kierkegaard, Journals. "I would rather have my daughter become a prostitute than my son become a journalist""
"Something about the combination of Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Camus and Kierkegaard is usually an indicator. They also tend to really covet books as objects/commodities and have surface level ways of dismissing authors which they've never read (Freud bad, Hemingway misogynist, etc)."
"And let us not forget the wise words of Søren Kierkegaard, who asserted, 'Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.' Cats, with their unapologetic embrace of leisure and their keen awareness of the present moment, remind us to savor the simple joys of existence, transcendin"
"Could be a statement, idea, thesis, theme, pithy word of wisdom, whatever it may be. I think for me it might be Kierkegaard's leap of faith"
"So the current Trueanon episode is about the death of Eliott Smith and the title is a Kierkegaard reference"
"And let us not forget the wise words of Søren Kierkegaard, who asserted, 'Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.'"