Kierkegaardesque Quotes & Sayings

Stone tools are fossilized human behavior. — Louis Leakey

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. — Wallace Stevens

One grey hair appeared on my head
I plucked it out with my hand.
It answered me: You have prevailed against me alone -
What will you do when my army comes after me? — Yehuda HaLevi

To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished
until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth! — Jaroslav Pelikan

We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled. — Chuck Klosterman

Let the die be cast.
[Lat., Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea.) — Suetonius

It is what it is, it is what you make it. — James Durbin

We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health systems and have a profound and lasting impact on development. — Babatunde Osotimehin