"Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'."

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Source : Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala (2014). “Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx”, p.93, Columbia University Press

Gianni Vattimo

#Law Quotes #Data Quotes #Pirate Quotes

“No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.”
“I donâ€™t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.”
“We account for all the matter and energy that we're familiar with, measure up how much gravity it should have, it's one-sixth of the gravity that's actually operating on the universe. We call that dark matter. It really should be called dark gravity. We don't know what that is.”
“I feel like I get really stressed out sometimes. I just want someone to tell me, "Relax, it's all going to be okay." I think that's all we really need.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.”

Source : "Amos Lee sings of love, loss and hope". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2011.
“Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.”
“Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.”
“It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.”

Source : "A Book Buyer's Lament" by Ken Kalfus, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2015.

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