Subjectivity is truth.

Subjektiviteten er Sandheden.

Søren Kierkegaard

Philosophers

Søren Kierkegaard

Born in 1813 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Kierkegaard challenged Hegel's grand system-philosophy from the standpoint of the 'single individual,' placing subjective experiences — anxiety, despair, the leap of faith — at the center of philosophy. Through polyphonic works published under pseudonyms, he delineated three stages of existence: the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. Widely called the 'father of existentialism,' he prepared the ground for twentieth-century existentialist thought.

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Source: Afsluttende uvidenskabelig Efterskrift (非学問的あとがき), 1846年Verified

Søren Kierkegaard's Other Quotes

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily; not to dare is to lose oneself.

Despair is a sickness of the self, a sickness unto death.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

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I rebel, therefore we exist.

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Truth does not contradict truth; rather it accords with it and bears witness to it.

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I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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Let nothing define us. Let nothing subjugate us. Let freedom be our very substance.

-- Simone de Beauvoir