For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
Soren KierkegaardIn order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.
Soren KierkegaardIt belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Soren Kierkegaard