"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
- Søren Kierkegaard
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints..."
"Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will r..."
"A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception."
"If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin."
"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if ..."
"Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a ge..."
"The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much t..."
"What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?"