“ Surely a man who possesses even a little erections ingenii has not become entirely a cold and clammy mollusk, and when he approaches what is great it can never escape his mind that from the creation of the world it has been customary for the result to come last, and that, if one would truly learn anything from great actions, one must pay attention precisely to the beginning. ”
 Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (1843). copy citation