Empty Element

Famous quotes containing the words empty and/or element:

“Full bottles are quiet; it’s the empty ones that make all the noise.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia’s fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)