Finite Element

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“Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“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)