Svendsen Quotes & Sayings

Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked. — Michael Winter

For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

Self-identity is inextricably bound up with the identity of the surroundings. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

Heidegger's concept for the kind of being we ourselves are is Dasein. Literally it means 'being-there'.We are the sort of beings who are there, in the world. What characterizes Dasein is that its existence is a concern for it in its existence. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

We spontaneously relate to ourselves and the world by means of the technical object. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

Traditions brings continuity to one's existence, but this sort of continuity is precisely what has been increasingly lost
throughout modernity. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

In Sussex Drive, Linda Svendsen takes us deep behind the lines of Ottawa's politics, polls and pomp, and into the lives of Canada's two most powerful women. By turns shocking, funny, sizzling and illuminating, this story is brilliantly written with an unnerving authenticity that makes it seem all too real. You're going to want to read this. — Terry Fallis

One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

In order to live a meaningful life,
humans need answers, i.e., a certain understanding of basic existential questions. These 'answers' do not have to be made completely explicit, as a lack of words does not necessarily indicate a lack of understanding, but one has to able to place oneself in the world and build a relatively stable identity. The founding of such an identity is only possible if one can tell a relatively coherent story about who one has been and who one intends to be. — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

The difference between imaginary and real object creates a continuos desire — Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

through and took the — Claire Svendsen