"How absurd men are! They never use..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.”

“Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.”

“The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.”

“Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.”

“Dreams can never be made captive.”

“The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority.”

“If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.”

“Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.”

“Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.”