Pic of the day, part i: Still Life, by Jean Simeon Chardin
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Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.
Franz Kafka, Aphorisms
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Pic of the day, part ii: Attributes of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture by Anne Vallayer-Coster
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In the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power, but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
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Nothing else but the art and the quotes tonight.
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That’s it from here, America. G’night.
Love the top painting, simple and elegant