"Job endured everything - until his friends..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

“If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.”

“A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning andget under way.”

“Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.”

“There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.”

“Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.”

“We boil at different degrees.”

“Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

“My love is as a fever, longing stillFor that which longer nurseth the disease,Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please.My reason, the physician to my love,Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,Hath left me, and I desperate now approveDesire is death, which physic did except.”

“Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.”