Quote of Soren Kierkegaard - The paradox is really the pathos...
Biography - Soren Kierkegaard:
Danish philosopher.
Born: 1813 - Died: 1855
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: Denmark
Born: 1813 - Died: 1855
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: Denmark
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
See also...
Quotes about life:
Quotes about soul:
At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
Quotes about thought:
Quotes about passion:
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
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