"What I really need is to get..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.
More by Soren Kierkegaard
“An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.”
“To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.”
“The door to happiness opens outward.”
More on Action
“I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.”
“The worlds in which we live at heart are one, The world "I am," the fruit of "I have done"; And underneath these worlds of flower and fruit, The world "I love,"--the only living root.”
“A big shot is a little shot who keeps on shootin'”
More on Knowledge
“Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.”
“There’s a reason why players that have multiple championships have multiple championships. There’s a certain characteristic and an understanding and knowledge and that’s not something that’s easily taught. You kind of have to go through it and it kind of has to be part of your DNA from the beginning.”
“I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.”