#lone

I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#alone #become #comprehensible #discovered #enters

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#degenerates #every #government #only #people

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#alone #error #itself #needs #stand

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#alone #because #more #reflects #travels

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#child #did #ever #hand #i

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all. ↗

— Allen Tate

#any #conditions #history #instance #less

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us. ↗

— Billy Joel

#beings #completely #crazy #feel #human

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality. ↗

— Gwen John

#god #nearer #reality

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#anybody #anymore #anything #certain #enterprise

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#born #complaining #crying #dies #disappointed