Word: soren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With that increase to egg him on, Glistrup kept up his antitax campaign, though he was scarcely, as he claimed to be, the most celebrated Dane since Hans Christian Andersen and Soren Kierkegaard. Before the court verdict was pronounced last week, the irrepressible tax dodger declared: "If you ask me what would crush my vitality, I believe it would be the judge's not-guilty verdict. That would hit me harder than a guilty verdict. My psychological power comes from fighting a battle in which I've been unfairly, horribly and absurdly treated." He got his wish...
...cross it, and conquer it if he is to arrive at a metaphysical sense of self. No philosopher had a more playfully metaphysical sense of self than that most exoteric of existentialists, that master mirthful mentation--just in from the Danish Coast, here he is now, Ladies and Gentlemen, Soren "The Psycho" Kierkegaard. You may all stop reading now. I only introduced Kierkegaard as a further inducement for you to stop reading, primarily because I can't understand why any of you would be interested in Humor Theory, the most tedious of philosophical endeavors...
Still, Carter is fond of quoting Danish Theologian Soren Kierkegaard that "every man is an exception," a view that certainly fits him. He has been described with a catalogue of contradictions: liberal, moderate, conservative, compassionate, ruthless, soft, tough, a charlatan, a true believer, a defender of the status quo, a populist Hamlet...
...woman's place is with her husband, and that she should keep quiet and cover her head in church. I just can't go along with him on that." Carter also has read deeply from the works of religious thinkers such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Earth, Paul Tillich and Soren Kierkegaard and quotes from them. In particular, he is fond of this sentence from Niebuhr: "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world...
...SOREN LEISVIG...