" He formed a link between them and his own generation of dissatisfied students in the late 1920s, bored with their studies and longing for ‘destructive’ new ideas. Further back, he connected them to the whole line of philosophical rebels: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and the rest. "

― Sarah Bakewell , At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails