“The strong man is strongest when alone.”
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Tell, Act I, sc. iii, as translated by Sir Thomas Martin
Wilhelm Tell (1803)
“When is man strong until he feels alone?”
Act III.
Colombe's Birthday (1844)
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John Frusciante (1970) American guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer
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Lyrics, The Empyrean (2009)
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
Women Saints of East and West
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Reminiscences (1881), referring to his father, James Carlyle.
Sometimes quoted as "Man was created to work, not to speculate, or feel, or dream; Every idle moment is treason". The second of those two clauses in fact comes from Thomas Arnold The Christian Life (1841), Lecture VI.
1880s
“The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass.”
Jacques Ellul book Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
Vintage, p. 9
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1965)
Context: The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Doctrine of the Mean
Dugald Stewart (1753–1828) Scottish philosopher and mathematician
Dugald Stewart; reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 581
