Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Quotes & Sayings

I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom. — Terence McKenna

It is the theory which decides what we can observe — Albert Einstein

All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on the workers, environment, and future generations. As with the banking sector, they play games with the lives of millions, hysterically reject any kind of government intervention when the profits are rolling in, but are quick to pass the bill for the cleanup and the far-reaching consequences of these avoidable tragedies to the public when things go wrong. We have a straightforward proposal: if they want public money, we want public control. It's that simple. — Michael Hureaux-Perez

Democracy is not a solution but a way of seeking solutions -- not a form of State devoted to this or that particular end...but a form of State devoted, whatever its end may be, to a single means and method of determining that end. — Ernest Barker

It's an accident when cars collide." The remnants of desired hoarsened Walsh's voice. "When lips collide it's a kiss. — Kennedy Ryan

Circumstances shouldn't always set your happiness, sometimes you have to look within your heart. Love Conquers All. — M.J. Abraham

Caenis surveyed the celebrating crowd with naked disgust. Vaelin couldn't hear the word he mouthed but the shape of his lips carried the meaning clearly enough: "Scum. — Anthony Ryan

It would always be a put-on, high school or not, for the whole rest of the world, for the rest of our lives. You couldn't ever guess who someone was by the way they looked because, good or bad, the way they looked was always just a costume or an act. It was Halloween everyday, for most people anyway, just to feel like they weren't alone, to belong, just to keep being happy maybe. — Joe Meno

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding. — Andrew Sean Greer

Designers need to be more than ambassadors, they need to be fully functioning and fully aware members of strategic decision-making teams in a company. — Nathan Shedroff

The ad does not say "Buy this!"; it says, "Be assured that if you buy and display this product, others are being well trained to feel ugly and inferior in your presence, just as you feel ugly and inferior compared with this goddess. — Geoffrey Miller

The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself. — Kilroy J. Oldster