61 ideas
16000 | Fixed ideas should be tackled aggressively [Kierkegaard] |
7578 | I conceived it my task to create difficulties everywhere [Kierkegaard] |
22087 | Philosophy fails to articulate the continual becoming of existence [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
22047 | Wherever there is painless contradiction there is also comedy [Kierkegaard] |
16012 | Philosophy can't be unbiased if it ignores language, as that is no more independent than individuals are [Kierkegaard] |
22092 | Kierkegaard's truth draws on authenticity, fidelity and honesty [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
15999 | Pure truth is for infinite beings only; I prefer endless striving for truth [Kierkegaard] |
22094 | Subjective truth can only be sustained by repetition [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
16005 | I recognise knowledge, but it is the truth by which I can live and die that really matters [Kierkegaard] |
5651 | Traditional views of truth are tautologies, and truth is empty without a subject [Kierkegaard, by Scruton] |
20313 | The highest truth we can get is uncertainty held fast by an inward passion [Kierkegaard] |
10009 | Substitutional quantification is just a variant of Tarski's account [Wallace, by Baldwin] |
16007 | I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it [Kierkegaard] |
16013 | Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is' [Kierkegaard] |
20742 | The real subject is ethical, not cognitive [Kierkegaard] |
16002 | The self is a combination of pairs of attributes: freedom/necessity, infinite/finite, temporal/eternal [Kierkegaard] |
22098 | Socrates neglects the gap between knowing what is good and doing good [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
22086 | The most important aspect of a human being is not reason, but passion [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
16003 | If people marry just because they are lonely, that is self-love, not love [Kierkegaard] |
15998 | Perfect love is not in spite of imperfections; the imperfections must be loved as well [Kierkegaard] |
7579 | While big metaphysics is complete without ethics, personal philosophy emphasises ethics [Kierkegaard] |
7581 | Speculative philosophy loses the individual in a vast vision of humanity [Kierkegaard] |
22090 | For me time stands still, and I with it [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
22096 | Anxiety is not a passing mood, but a response to human freedom [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
22097 | The ultimate in life is learning to be anxious in the right way [Kierkegaard] |
21909 | Ultimate knowledge is being anxious in the right way [Kierkegaard] |
20758 | Anxiety is staring into the yawning abyss of freedom [Kierkegaard] |
9305 | The plebeians bore others; only the nobility bore themselves [Kierkegaard] |
21910 | Our destiny is the highest pitch of world-weariness [Kierkegaard] |
5650 | Reason is just abstractions, so our essence needs a subjective 'leap of faith' [Kierkegaard, by Scruton] |
22095 | There are aesthetic, ethical and religious subjectivity [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
20314 | People want to lose themselves in movements and history, instead of being individuals [Kierkegaard] |
7582 | Becoming what one is is a huge difficulty, because we strongly aspire to be something else [Kierkegaard] |
16001 | Life may be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards [Kierkegaard] |
20747 | What matters is not right choice, but energy, earnestness and pathos in the choosing [Kierkegaard] |
22093 | Life is a repetition when what has been now becomes [Kierkegaard] |
16009 | When we seek our own 'freedom' we are just trying to avoid responsibility [Kierkegaard] |
22091 | Kierkegaard prioritises the inward individual, rather than community [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
7586 | God does not think or exist; God creates, and is eternal [Kierkegaard] |
20712 | God is 'eternal' either by being non-temporal, or by enduring forever [Davies,B] |
16006 | Either Abraham rises higher than universal ethics, or he is a mere murderer [Kierkegaard] |
20701 | Can God be good, if he has not maximised goodness? [Davies,B] |
20702 | The goodness of God may be a higher form than the goodness of moral agents [Davies,B] |
7577 | Abraham was willing to suspend ethics, for a higher idea [Kierkegaard] |
20703 | How could God have obligations? What law could possibly impose them? [Davies,B] |
20694 | 'Natural theology' aims to prove God to anyone (not just believers) by reason or argument [Davies,B] |
20706 | A distinct cause of the universe can't be material (which would be part of the universe) [Davies,B] |
20707 | The universe exhibits design either in its sense of purpose, or in its regularity [Davies,B] |
20708 | If God is an orderly being, he cannot be the explanation of order [Davies,B] |
20312 | God cannot be demonstrated objectively, because God is a subject, only existing inwardly [Kierkegaard] |
20710 | Maybe an abnormal state of mind is needed to experience God? [Davies,B] |
20711 | A believer can experience the world as infused with God [Davies,B] |
20709 | The experiences of God are inconsistent, not universal, and untestable [Davies,B] |
7580 | Pantheism destroys the distinction between good and evil [Kierkegaard] |
16008 | The best way to be a Christian is without 'Christianity' [Kierkegaard] |
20735 | We need to see that Christianity cannot be understood [Kierkegaard] |
20697 | One does not need a full understanding of God in order to speak of God [Davies,B] |
22088 | Faith is like a dancer's leap, going up to God, but also back to earth [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |
7584 | Without risk there is no faith [Kierkegaard] |
7583 | Faith is the highest passion in the sphere of human subjectivity [Kierkegaard] |
20699 | Paradise would not contain some virtues, such as courage [Davies,B] |