Max Picard quotes
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“Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence,”
-- Max PicardSource : Max Picard (1952). “The World of Silence”
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“Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came.”
-- Max PicardSource : Max Picard (1952). “The World of Silence”
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“Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.”
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“Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence. The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize. Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something created for its own sake.”
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“Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound”
-- Max PicardSource : Max Picard (1963). “Man and Language”
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“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
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Source : "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 134), 1988.
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Source : "Where Have All the Graveyards Gone? The War That Didn’t End War and Its Unending Successors" by Adam Hochschild, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2011.
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.277, Macmillan
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“In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.”
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