"Noise is the most impertinent of all..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
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“Time is that in which all things pass away.”
“Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.”
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“Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.”
“The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.”
“I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.”