Philosophical
What if chasing pleasure is the fastest way to lose it?
Kierkegaard noticed something strange about how people chase good feelings. The more desperately someone runs toward pleasure, the more likely they are to blow right past it. Like sprinting through a garden and wondering why you never smell the flowers.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.— Søren Kierkegaard
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The thinker
Father of Existentialism
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a Danish philosopher and theologian whose writings on anxiety, despair, and choice laid the groundwork for existentialist thought.
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