Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.
Kierkegaard, Søren. Philosophical Fragments / Johannes Climacus. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, Princeton University Press, 1985.
He was a great football and track & field star. When he was in college, he had played baseball during the summer recess and was paid $2 a game, a common practice for college athletes who played baseball under an assumed name. Thorpe’s school had no athletes who had done that before, and his experience with formal rules was very limited. There was no one at the Carlyle Indian School who could advise him. Later, that technicality was used to strip him of his amateur titles and medals. Despite that, he was voted as the greatest athlete of the 20th century.
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".
