"Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it."

-- Johann Georg Hamann

#Spirit Quotes #Calming Quotes #Vain Quotes

“People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in a way we don't have the nerve to do.'”
“What good is strength if you have no sense?”
“If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.”
“I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.”

Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.
“The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.”
“I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.”
“Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do not have their source in experimental method, which is acquainted only with sensible appearances and can discover nothing beyond them. The resolution of these questions transcends the methods used by physics; it is the object of metaphysics. Therefore, if the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.”

Source : "The aim and structure of physical theory". Book by Pierre Duhem, translated by Philip P. Wiener, p. 10, 1991.
“I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.”

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