Kierkegaard

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1. Kierkegaard - Noun

2. Kierkegaard - Proper noun

Meaning

Danish philosopher who is generally considered. along with Nietzsche, to be a founder of existentialism (1813-1855)

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I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made me get up and give that first speech. I only know I had to. What was it Kierkegaard said about free acts? They're the ones that, looking back, you realize you couldn't help doing. Mario Savio

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, "Follow not me, but you!”. Rollo May

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both. Georg Brandes

The father, the Name-of-the-father, sustains the structure of desire with the structure of the law- but the inheritance of the father is that which Kierkegaard designates for us, namely, his sin. Jacques Lacan

Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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