Quote of Soren Kierkegaard - Because of its tremendous solemnity death...
Biography - Soren Kierkegaard:
Danish philosopher.
Born: 1813 - Died: 1855
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: Denmark
Born: 1813 - Died: 1855
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: Denmark
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
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Quotes about death:
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
Quotes for: good
Quotes about passion:
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Quotes for: limit
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
'Know yourself' is the whole of science. Only at the end of the perception of all things will man have recognized himself. For things are only the borders of man.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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