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"Neither promise yourself things nor do things if you see that when deprived of them they will cause you material suffering."

Leonardo da Vinci

topics:

• materialism

• ambition

100

"What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?"

Søren Kierkegaard

topics:

• logic

• skepticism

• doubt

• paradox

1070

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."

Søren Kierkegaard

topics:

• foolishness

• close-mindedness

• ignorance

1060

"To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity."

Søren Kierkegaard

topics:

• avoidance

• love

• deception

1075

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

Søren Kierkegaard

topics:

• existentialism

• consciousness

1058