Junctura Synovialis Quotes & Sayings

The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization from individual experiences; the statement means that rubbing wood in this way will always produce fire. The art of discovery is therefore the art of correct generalization ... The separation of relevant from irrelevant factors is the beginning of knowledge. — Hans Reichenbach

Or maybe they weren't changing. Maybe they were just now becoming what they had always wanted to be. — Eilis O'Neal

I wish I had time to listen to music more. — John Edgar Wideman

Later in the summer your grandfather dies, and you're secretly glad. You have a place to put all your sorrow now, one that people will understand. — Lena Dunham

Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments in all their senses and members. Consider above all the eternity of their pains, which above all things makes hell intolerable. — Saint Francis De Sales

But Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely. It makes her feel free. Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking. — Liane Moriarty