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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes . . . - grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Source: The Journals of Soren Kierkegaard: A Selection, no. 206, entry for 1838.
-- Soren Kierkegaard, (May 5 1813-1855), Danish philosopher, writer; He was the founder of existentialism and famous for his critique of systematic rational philosophy, e.g., Hegelianism.

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