10 quotes
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Either/Or (1843)
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Either/Or (1843)
It is at the touch of love that she first awakens; before that she is dream.
Either/Or (1843)
The woman is substance, the man is reflection.
Either/Or (1843)
When God created Eve, He let a deep sleep fall upon Adam; for woman is the man's dream.
Either/Or (1843)
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Either/Or (1843)
The man who feels no impulse toward the study of woman may, as far as I am concerned, be what he will; one thing he certainly is not, he is no aesthetician.
Either/Or (1843)
There is a gossipy reasoning which in its endlessness bears about the same relation to the result as the interminable line of Egyptian monarchs bears to the historical value of their reigns.
Either/Or (1843)
It is an earnest and significant moment when a person links himself to an eternal power for an eternity, when he accepts himself as the one whose remembrance time will never erase, when in an eternal and unerring sense he becomes conscious of himself as the person he is. And yet one can refrain from doing it!
Either/Or (1843)
Married people pledge love for each other throughout eternity. Well, now, that is easy enough but does not mean very much, for if one is finished with time one is probably finished with eternity. If, instead of saying "throughout eternity," the couple would say, "until Easter, until next May Day," then what they say would make some sense, for then they would be saying something and also something they perhaps could carry out.
Either/Or (1843)