One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
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One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.
At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
It is true: man is the microcosm: I am my world.
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
In philosophy the race is to the one who can run slowest, the one who crosses the finish line last.
I must plunge into the water of doubt again and again.
One might say: genius is talent exercised with courage.
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
Kierkegaard writes: if christianity were so easy and cozy, why should God in his scriptures have set heaven and earth in motion and threatened eternal punishments? Question: but then in that case why is this scriptures so unclear?