Coleman

“Faith begins precisely where thinking leaves off”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“Now and then, in philosophers or artists, one finds a passionate and exaggerated worship of 'pure forms': no one should doubt that a person who so needs the surface must once have made an unfortunate grab underneath it. Perhaps these burnt children, the born artists who find their only joy in trying to falsify life's images (as if taking protracted revenge against it-), perhaps they may even belong to a hierarchy: we could tell the degree to which they are sick of life by how much they wish to see its image adulterated, diluted, transcendentalized, apotheosized- we could count the homines religiosi among the artists, as their highest class.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“The ethical expression for what Abraham did is that he meant to murder Isaac; the religious expression is that he meant to sacrifice Isaac—but precisely in this contradiction is the anxiety that can make a person sleepless, and yet without this anxiety Abraham is not who he is.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil