#foolishness

Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret it either way; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it; believe a woman or believe her not, you will regret it either way; believing a woman or not believing her, you will regret it both ways. Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#laughter #marriage #philosophy #regret #women

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#french #remorse #respect #respect

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. ↗

— Confucius

#other-people #journey

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again. ↗

— George W. Bush

#dumb #foolishness #fools #shame

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works. ↗

— Brock Yates

#books #cars #foolishness #more #motorcycles

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness. ↗

— May Sarton

#creation #day #discipline #each #foolishness

As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in the midst of the dream be aware that he is dreaming, and if the dream be bad, comfort himself with the thought that it is only a dream. This is a common experience with all of us. And so it was that I, the modern, often entered into my dreaming, and in the consequent strange dual personality was both actor and spectator. And right often have I, the modern, been perturbed and vexed by the foolishness, illogic, obtuseness, and general all-round stupendous stupidity of myself, the primitive. ↗

— Jack London

#duality #foolishness #modern #primitive #self

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it ↗

— Judith McNaught

#foolishness #sad #westmoreland #dreams

To deny the existence of God would be to close your eyes to the beauty around you, to close your ears to the symphony of nature, to close your nostrils to the scents wafting on the breeze, to close your mouth to the delicacies of nourishment, to close your hands to the feel of luxury, to close your mind to the ability to think, and to close your heart to the only love that can penetrate the depths of the soul. For in Him all things consist, in Him we live, and move, and have our being, and without Him we cannot help but be fools. ↗

— J.E.B. Spredemann

#beauty #christ #christian #creation #creationism

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#knowledge #rationalism #science #self-delusion #science