“It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.” ThinkingFirstsFeelingsLostWishReligiousExistenceClearYouthChainsParadisePrimitiveThinking God Book:A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein
“Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.” MayLeftWishSeaLandMinesComfortChainsTheeVainTiesLand And Sea Author:William Wordsworth
“So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.” IfsWantNeedsWellsSaidDesireWishSleepIssuesObjectsComfortMessagesHungerSatisfactionChainsCharmBreastsPermitMilkProvokingOrganismsAcheInfancySwallowingWailing Author:William H. Gass
“Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.” MenWholeWishCausesFateBoundsChainsLinks Author:Seneca the Younger