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Soren Kierkegaard13 quotes
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1844God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1838If 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, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! — Soren Kierkegaard · 1843I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations-one can do either this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it-you will regret both. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1843If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1843The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. — Soren Kierkegaard · 1848All 13 quotes →Henrik Ibsen8 quotes
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. — Henrik Ibsen · 1882What ought a man to be? Well, my short answer is "himself." — Henrik Ibsen · 1867Prose is for ideas,
Verse is for visions. — Henrik Ibsen · 1871Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. — Henrik Ibsen · 1877Castles in the air-they are so easy to take refuge in. And easy to build, too. — Henrik Ibsen · 1892To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness? — Henrik Ibsen · 1881All 8 quotes →Christian Louis Lange1 quote
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. — Christian Louis Lange · 1921Edvard Munch1 quote
I was walking along the road with two friends.
The sun was setting.
I felt a breath of melancholy-Suddenly the sky turned blood-red.
I stopped, and leaned against the railing, deathly tired-
looking out across the flaming clouds that hung like blood and a sword over the blue-black fjord and town.
My friends walked on-I stood there, trembling with fear.
And I sensed a great, infinite scream pass through nature. — Edvard Munch · 1892Gunnar Myrdal1 quote
The treatment of the Negro is America's greatest and most conspicuous scandal. — Gunnar Myrdal · 1944Hans Blix1 quote
We haven't found any smoking guns. — Hans Blix · 2003