Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.
Kierkegaard, Søren. The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard. Translated by Alexander Dru, Oxford University Press, 1938, p. 411.
The designer was a exemplar of a third world artist and designer, having studied in the West, then implementing the emulation of neither but the creation of entirely new blended art and design. His cultural leap became an artistic and economic success.
This was a point of view of a character in the novel which happens to correspond with her point of view—that the motivation for any creator was not “serving his brothers” but his “truth” and his duty to him(her)self. However a large number of creative people have the contribution to the society and “his brothers” as their most important motivation. Her philosophy praises one and condemns the latter.
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christendom, morality, ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of religion, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony, and parables. Much of his philosophical work deals with the issues of how one lives as a "single individual", giving priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment. He was against literary critics who defined idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, and thought that Swedenborg, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schlegel, and Hans Christian Andersen were all "understood" far too quickly by "scholars".
