"Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

“Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.”

“And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.”

“The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.”

“If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?”

“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”

“Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.”

“When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.”

“I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.”

“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.”