No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?
Soren KierkegaardIt is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.
Soren KierkegaardThe presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
Soren KierkegaardTo pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.
Soren KierkegaardTruth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence.
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