Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. – Soren Kierkegaard
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. – 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
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you. – Soren Kierkegaard
Michelle Pfeiffer hasnt been finding a lot of work recently because she doesnt like what a woman her age is offered. Thats a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesnt work the other way around. – Denzel Washington