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The path to all great things passes through silence. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
All outdoors may be bedlam, provided that there is no disturbance within. (Seneca)
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. (Blaise Pascal)
Buddhism. Stoicism. Epicureanism. Christianity. Hinduism. It’s all but impossible to find a philosophical school or religion that does not venerate this inner peace – this stillness – as the highest good and as the key to elite performance and a happy life. And when basically all the wisdom of the ancient world agrees on something, only a fool would decline to listen. (Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holliday)
The problem is no longer getting to express oneself but finding moments of solitude and silence in which one might eventually find something worth saying. (Gilles Deleuze)
Further Reading
- The World of Silence by Max Picard (via A Working Library)