"Shows itself in the notion that what..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

“It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, "No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer."”

“Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?”

“Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.”

“I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.”

“It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.”

“There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.”

“Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.”

“I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.”

“Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.”