"But the life of freedom requires a..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

“This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.”

“Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.”

“If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.”

“Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.”

“If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.”

“A people free to choose will always choose peace.”

“There is no beginning too small.”

“The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.”

“I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”