"Philosophy always requires something more, requires the..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

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

“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”

“What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?”

“Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.”

“I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.”

“Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.”

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”

“Love is the greatest link that we have with those who have temporarily left us.”