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Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

“How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!”

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Jean de la Bruyere was a French philosopher and moralist, born on August 16, 1645, and died on May 10, 1696. His works have had a profound impact on posterity. more

“As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.”

Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims

“Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.”

Want Left Solitude Deep Down Very Deep Left Alone Erikson

Author:Stanley Hoffmann

“Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.”

Men He Man Solitude Dull Vicious Mental Power

Book:TOILERS OF THE SEA

Source: TOILERS OF THE SEA

“It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.”

Men May Company Position Bears Solitude Deceiving

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness.”

People Ifs Doe Loneliness Cost Solitude Quiet Active Peculiar Antisocial

Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1936-1944, The mirror of relationship

“There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.”

Individual Space Silence Solitude Internals Free Society Individual Freedom

Book:The New Left and the 1960s: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse

Source: The New Left and the 1960s: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse

“There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.”

Knows Soul Know How Solitude Intimacy True Intimacy

Book:No Man Is an Island

Source: No Man Is an Island

“Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.”

Made Teach Solitude Capacity Broads Entertaining

Book:Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings

Source: Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings

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