Gordon Daniel Marino
Author
Series
Marquette studies in philosophy volume 27
Publisher
Marquette University Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth."--Søren Kierkegaard. The father of existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher who could write like an angel. With only a sentence or two, he could plumb the depths of the human spirit. In this collection of some 800 quotations, the reader will find dazzling bon mots next to words of life-changing power. Drawing from...