Tag: Kierkegaard

• The victorious hermit in Copenhagen

  

  I was only in Copenhagen for a day in which time I strolled down Stroget, ate some excellent pickled herring in Nyhaven, enjoyed the excellent cinnamon and cardamon buns of Danish bakeries, relaxed on a cruise boat around the harbour during which the guide was openly contemptuous of the tourist obsession with the little mermaid […]

  Jeff Rich

  June 21, 2019

  culture, the real world today

  Copenhagen, Denmark, Kierkegaard, travel

• Quotes to write by, 2.

  From The Journals of Kierkegaard, 1834-54: And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling; and that tragic, ruthless glance, […]

  Jeff Rich

  July 27, 2016

  quotations to write by

  Kierkegaard