Svendsen's Quotes

#1. Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.

Michael Winter

#2. There were a lot of running backs as good as me. The real difference was that I could focus. I never laid back and relied on natural ability.

Jim Brown

#3. We spontaneously relate to ourselves and the world by means of the technical object.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#4. The difference between imaginary and real object creates a continuos desire

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#5. Traditions brings continuity to one's existence, but this sort of continuity is precisely what has been increasingly lost
throughout modernity.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#6. No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#7. Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#8. Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#9. In some hotels they give you a little sewing kit. You know what I do? I sew the towels together. One time I sewed a button on a lampshade. I like to leave a mark.

George Carlin

#10. Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#11. Trying to change the outer is like seeing your unclean or unshaven face in the mirror and trying to shave or clean the mirror.

Joe Vitale

#12. For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#13. Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.

Wendy Kaminer

#14. One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#15. Heidegger's concept for the kind of being we ourselves are is Dasein. Literally it means 'being-there'.We are the sort of beings who are there, in the world. What characterizes Dasein is that its existence is a concern for it in its existence.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#16. Self-identity is inextricably bound up with the identity of the surroundings.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#17. One of the questions I get asked a lot is, 'What do you do to stay in shape?' My glib answer is, 'I play.' But I mean it. Sure, I go to the gym, but I don't spend my life there. Most of my activity is outdoors, whether it's basketball or mountain biking or rock climbing.

Jason Lewis

#18. through and took the

Claire Svendsen

#19. A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen