If you label me, you negate me.

I am no part of a whole, I am not integrated, not included. To put me in this whole you imagine is to negate me. | Attributed as part of Kierkegaard's response to Hegel in the article "Existentialism: A Preface" by Jean Wahl, in The New Republic, 30 September 1945. Though the statement is in quotes it may have been intended as a paraphrase of Kierkegaard's criticism of Hegel. The paragraph of Wahl's article containing these words was also quoted on p. 190 of the book A Kierkegaard Anthology edited by Robert Bretall (1946 edition); the book Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered by Jon Stewart (2003), the first few pages of which are viewable here, mentions on p. 8 that Bretall's anthology "has served as an introductory textbook for anglophone students of Kierkegaard for many years now." | Put me in a System and you negate me—I am not just a mathematical symbol—I am. | The Outsider (1956) by Colin Wilson, p. 20. The statement was prefaced by "He declared" but was not in quotes, so unclear if intended as a direct quote or a paraphrase, and it was part of a paragraph discussing Kierkegaard's response to Hegel, so may have been based on Wahl's article. | Put a label on me and you negate me. | Attributed to Kierkegaard in a letter from Marcia Jacobs to the New York Times Magazine, 15 October 1967, p. 16. Viewable on p. 241 of the online "timesmachine" here. | Once you label me you negate me. | As attributed in Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling, Vol. 2 (1976) by American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, p. 33. | When you label me, you negate me. | As attributed in Inner Joy (1985) by Kory Bloomfield, p 169