"I do not care for anything. I..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

“At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals.”

“Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.”

“Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.”

“The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy.”

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

“Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?”

“For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.”

“Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.”

“I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.”