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View Plans“ ”- a bad conscience is indeed able to make life interesting.
About Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish Christian philosopher and theologian, considered to be a founder of Existentialist thought and Absurdist traditions. He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christendom, morality, ethics, psychology and philosophy of religion, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and parables.
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Additional quotes by Søren Kierkegaard
My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word <i>Schnur</i> in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word <i>Schnur</i> should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.
Faith begins precisely where thinking leaves off
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.