Philosophy Quote by Knut Hamsun — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.”

“The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers.... One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word; one must be able to give one's writing unexpected effects. It must have a hectic, anguished vehemence, so that it rushes past like a gust of air, and it must have a latent, roistering tenderness so that it creeps and steals one's mind; it must be able to ring out like a sea-shanty in a tremendous hour, in the time of the tempest, and it must be able to sigh like one who, in tearful mood, sobs in his inmost heart.”

“It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.”

“where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?”

“In good company one must never want to be entirely and solely right, which is what all pure logic wants [...].”

“The principle of caution, respecting the gravity of human suffering, weighs against procreating to the extent that it is unpredictable whether the person created will have a good life.”

“It’s hard to tell if the tooth that fell off misses the set of teeth in the mouth or the other way round.”

“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”

“For once,”