March 28

“In the constant sociability of our age people shudder at solitude to such a degree that they know no other use to put it to but (oh, admirable epigram!) as a punishment for criminals. But after all it is a fact that in our age it is a crime to have spirit, so it is natural that such people, the lovers of solitude, are included in the same class with criminals.” ——————————————————– ~Source: The Sickness Unto Death (1849) Author: Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Anti-Climacus

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