Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?

I don't really know what my personality is anyway. I don't really have one.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

Sometimes, I'm not sure why I wind up doing some of the things I do.

I am not sultry. I don't know what I am.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

I think the terminology I would use is 'a continuous process of reflection'. I've always thought of only two questions that have mattered to me personally. One is what is really needed in the world and the second is what's really important to me and how these two intersect. It's always been a reflective process - spiraling around these two poles.

I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

I acknowledge that I have no idea who the hell I am, and I think that's the first step.

I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.

Maybe you didn't know what people thought of you because they themselves didn't know what they thought of you. Maybe you didn't give us enough to go on, Hannah.

I wondered how I looked to her, in that place, and knew that even in a place that was nothing but knowledge that was the one thing I could not know. That if I look inward I would see only infinite mirrors staring into myself for eternity.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.