Quotation by

Soren Kierkegaard

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Soren Kierkegaard

Time

Understanding this quote AI Analysis

Ideas, like people, change and weaken as time passes, unable to remain exactly as they once were. However, they always hold a deep longing for their original context or beginnings, much like a person misses their childhood home.

More by this author

All quotes by Soren Kierkegaard →

More quotes about Time

See all →

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. …