Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear mos... - Søren Kierkegaard

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

"The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God."

"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 to think about."

"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 genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere."

"What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement."