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. — Søren Kierkegaard.

If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.

The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility.

Faith begins precisely where thinking leaves off.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.