The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.
Soren KierkegaardOne must not think slightingly of the paradoxicalโฆfor the paradox is the source of the thinkerโs passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
Soren KierkegaardA curiously interested observer sees a great deal, a scientifically interested observer is worthy of all honor, and anxiously interested observer sees what others do not see, but a crazy observer sees perhaps the most, his observation is more intense and more persistent, just as the senses of certain animals are sharper than those of man.
Soren Kierkegaard