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Arthur Schopenhauer

topics:

• boredom

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"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!"

Søren Kierkegaard

topics:

• faith

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• dreams

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

Søren Kierkegaard

topics:

• paradox

• doubt

• logic

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"I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both."

Søren Kierkegaard

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"It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey."

Søren Kierkegaard

topics:

• rebellion

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