Soren Kierkegaard — "The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self."

"I see it all, I understand it all, I grasp it all, but I do not want to obey."

"The true humorist does not want to be a humorist, but an earnest man."

"The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that."

"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth— look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intende…"

"What the philosophers say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads 'Pressing Done Here.' If you were to take your clothes to be pressed, you would be foo…"