On Silence

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – French philosopher Blaise Pascal

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” –Leo Tolstoy

“Nothing in all creation is so like God as silence.” – Patañjali

Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things. – Kahlil Gibran

“Every word has consequences. Every silence too.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

dont need to announce/proclaim. just do it. Daily Stoic Aug-12: real philosophers weren’t concerned with authorship, only what worked. More important, they believed that what was said mattered less thanwhat was done.

See also On Loneliness