19 ideas
7578 | I conceived it my task to create difficulties everywhere [Kierkegaard] |
22047 | Wherever there is painless contradiction there is also comedy [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] |
20313 | The highest truth we can get is uncertainty held fast by an inward passion [Kierkegaard] |
20742 | The real subject is ethical, not cognitive [Kierkegaard] |
7777 | We accept a metaphor when we see the sentence is false [Davidson] |
7775 | Understanding a metaphor is a creative act, with no rules [Davidson] |
7776 | Metaphors just mean what their words literally mean [Davidson] |
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] |
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] |
2594 | A true cause must involve a necessary connection between cause and effect [Malebranche] |
7586 | God does not think or exist; God creates, and is eternal [Kierkegaard] |
20312 | God cannot be demonstrated objectively, because God is a subject, only existing inwardly [Kierkegaard] |
7580 | Pantheism destroys the distinction between good and evil [Kierkegaard] |
7583 | Faith is the highest passion in the sphere of human subjectivity [Kierkegaard] |
7584 | Without risk there is no faith [Kierkegaard] |