Home » Quote » Ludwig Wittgenstein » „Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.“ „Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.“ — Ludwig Wittgenstein Related quotes „When one read’s Kierkegaard’s profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche’s amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the guilt and hostility which accompany repressed emotional powers, one might pinch oneself to realize that one is reading works written in the last century and not some new contemporary psychological analysis.“ — Rollo May „Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.“ — Ludwig Wittgenstein „And now, the main thing! As far as I can see, my next work will be called "Human Bisexuality." It will go to the root of the problem and say the last word it may be granted to say — the last and the most profound.“ — Sigmund Freud „Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche’s phrase, “Follow not me, but you!”“ — Rollo May „Kierkegaard writes: If Christianity were so easy and cozy, why should God in his Scriptures have set Heaven and Earth in motion and threatened eternal punishments? — Question: But then in that case why is this Scriptures so unclear?“ — Ludwig Wittgenstein „Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith… Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful.“ — Peter F. Drucker „Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and those who followed them accurately foresaw this growing split between truth and reality in Western culture, and they endeavored to call Western man back from the delusion that reality can be comprehended in an abstracted, detached way.“ — Rollo May „The only profound thinkers are the ones who do not suffer from a sense of the ridiculous.“ — Emil M. Cioran
„Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.“ — Ludwig Wittgenstein