Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55), Danish philosopher

In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes-in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc. before one is sufficiently naked.

The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard: A Selection, no. 1395, (ed. and tr. by Alexander Dru, 1938), entry for 1854

Nudist Quotes

Alanis on Nudity

Alanis says even her parents share her habit of discarding their clothes at home. She added: "We all walked around naked when it was appropriate, there wasn't a lot of shame to it."