#silence

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

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Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. ↗

— Aime Cesaire

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#conversation #great #silence

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Isaiah 41:1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. ↗

— Anonymous

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Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village. ↗

— Frances Densmore

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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#death #life #silence #thought #death

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. ↗