Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

Kierkegaard also said that truth is `subjective`. By this he did not mean it doesn't matter what we think or believe. He meant that the really important truths are personal. Only these truths are `true for me`.

To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.

Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe.

The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.