The Rise of Bierkergaard
My roomate Bill from college calls me Bierkergaard which I take as a profound compliment as it is based Soren Kierkegaard the Danish philosopher. I call him Kaiser Wilhelm with his pointy helmet and all.
Here are some of S.K.'s quotes. I am a big believer in quotes...if an idea cannot be communicated in a few sentences, then the idea needs to be stomped on until it fragments into crystallized shards.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Don't forget to love yourself.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Here are some of S.K.'s quotes. I am a big believer in quotes...if an idea cannot be communicated in a few sentences, then the idea needs to be stomped on until it fragments into crystallized shards.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Don't forget to love yourself.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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