Soren Kierkegaard Quotes About Pride
-
No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.
→ -
As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship.
→ -
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
→ -
You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that is a motif for your aimless fantasy. You who always pride yourself on being an observateur must, in return, put up with becoming an object of observation. Ah, you are a strange fellow, one moment a child, the next an old man; one moment you are thinking most earnestly about the most important scholarly problems, how you will devote your life to them, and the next you are a lovesick fool. But you are a long way from marriage.
→
Related Authors
-
Ludwig Feuerbach Philosopher -
Gabriel Marcel Philosopher -
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Philosopher -
Friedrich Nietzsche Philologist -
Sigmund Freud Neurologist -
Martin Buber Philosopher -
Albert Camus Author -
Martin Heidegger Philosopher -
Immanuel Kant Philosopher -
John Stuart Mill Philosopher -
Baruch Spinoza Philosopher -
Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher -
Karl Marx Philosopher -
Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher -
Rene Descartes Philosopher -
Karl Jaspers Psychiatrist -
Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher -
Plato Philosopher -
Edmund Husserl Philosopher -
Aristotle Philosopher