Quotes by Jens Bjørneboe

Still there are people who grasp freedom at once, who dont doubt, dont hesitate—but accept themselves as the measure of themselves and of everything, and who dont seem to show any dread. In some cases there are people who have the strength to do it and the innate wisdom to understand what the price is. In other cases they are people who have no idea what theyre doing, who choose freedom out of ignorance and lack of understanding—they know nothing about any price, and they go under when the price is demanded. It means ruin to choose to think for oneself if one cant think.

He who hasnt experienced a full depression alone and over a long period of time--he is a child.

They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic.