"How ironical that it is by means..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

“Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.”

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

“It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.”

“To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.”

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.”

“Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.”

“...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.”

“The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.”

“In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.”