[KALKI]

Quotations

Being gifted requires courage (1869)[citation needed]

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. (1871)[citation needed]

The world literature of the future will be more captivating, the more present the national trait in it is, and the more dissimilar it is, as long as it as art and science as well is common to all mankind. (1899)

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types. (1900)[citation needed]

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish (1906)[citation needed]

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness. (1909)[citation needed]

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity[citation needed]

It would be as impossible for me to attack Christianity as it would be impossible for me to attack werewolves.

I was very much surprised when Mill informed me that he had not read a line of Hegel, either in the original or in translation, and regarded the entire Hegelian philosophy as sterile and empty sophistry. I mentally confronted this with the opinion of the man at the Copenhagen University who knew the history of philosophy best, my teacher, Hans Brochner, who knew, so to speak, nothing of contemporary English and French philosophy, and did not think them worth studying. I came to the conclusion that here was a task for one who understood the thinkers of the two directions, who did not mutually understand one another. I thought that in philosophy, too, I knew what I wanted, and saw a road open in front of me.

Reminiscences of my childhood and youth (1906) 276-277