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1165 quotes from Søren Kierkegaard: 'Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.', 'The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.', and 'People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.'.
Kierkegaard, Søren | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Søren Kierkegaard (1813—1855) Søren Kierkegaard is an outsider in the history of philosophy.
Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard. Unfinished sketch of Kierkegaard by his cousin Niels Christian Kierkegaard, c. 1840. The philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard has been a major influence in the development of 20th-century philosophy, especially existentialism and postmodernism.
Dec 3, 1996 · Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (b. 1813, d. 1855) was a profound and prolific writer in the Danish “golden age” of intellectual and artistic activity. His work crosses the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, literary criticism, devotional literature and fiction.
Søren Kierkegaard, (born May 5, 1813, Copenhagen, Den.—died Nov. 11, 1855, Copenhagen), Danish religious philosopher, regarded as the founder of existentialism. He studied theology at the University of Copenhagen.
Søren Kierkegaard – The Hong Kierkegaard Library. BIOGRAPHY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SØREN KIERKEGAARD. By Gordon Marino. One of Søren Aabye Kierkegaard’s most celebrated works, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, sold 50 copies in his lifetime.
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) famously declared that while we can only understand life backwards, we can only live it forwards. If so, it is impossible to understand one’s own life, since there is never a point of rest: we are always being hurled into the future until we reach the point of death, by which time it is too late.
