S?ren Kierkegaard

Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 3
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Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated.

Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it.

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.