Once when Søren Kierkegaard had written himself into a paradox, he excused himself this way:
This seems to be a paradox. But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.
(Quoted from page 221 of Time Travel: A History, by James Gleick. Pantheon Books, 2016.)
For a brief biography of Søren Kierkegaard, click here. For images of or relating to Søren Kierkegaard, click here.
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