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.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Once you label me you negate me.

The less support an idea has,the more fervently it must be believed in, so that a totally preposterous idea requires unflinching faith.

My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.

Boredom is the only continuity the ironist has.