Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. – Soren Kierkegaard
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. – Soren Kierkegaard
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. – Soren Kierkegaard
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. – Soren Kierkegaard