"Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

“When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?”

“Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.”

“Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.”

“Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.”

“Sex energy is the creative energy of all creative geniuses.”

“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”

“Society does not love its unmaskers.”

“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.”

“What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.”