“Not one of us would dare to break
The silence
And, oh how we have longed
For something that would
Make us feel so…”

— Kate Bush

Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)

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British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and … 1958

Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) English composer and poet

From De Profundis
Context: But we of the rich plain of sweet airs and pure,
Oh! Death would take so much from us, how should we not fear?

“The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

“It never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel being seen like that.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 3, p. 34

“Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one story which will save us, and so we lunge for another, and we feel safe again, if only for as long as we are telling it.”

Nick Flynn (1960) American writer

“I dare be bold to affirm that, had the King of France beaten us, as we have done him, he would have been so modest as to have given us better terms than we have gained after all our glorious victories.”

Robert Walpole (1676–1745) British statesman

Source: Address https://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/walpole-robert-ii-1676-1745 to the electors of Kings Lynn for the general election of 1713 against the Treaty of Utrecht

“Blows are what awaken us and help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world and make us long to escape, to have freedom.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Pearls of Wisdom

“Chosen responsibility is where the human race needs to be headed. And to do this, we choose what we want to become responsible for because it would make us feel good to do it, not because it would make us feel like a good person to do what we don't want to do.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Possibly philosophers would look on us mathematicians the same way as we look on the technicians, if they dared.”

Paul R. Halmos (1916–2006) American mathematician

I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography (1985)
Context: Mathematics is not a deductive science — that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. You want to find out what the facts are, and what you do is in that respect similar to what a laboratory technician does. Possibly philosophers would look on us mathematicians the same way as we look on the technicians, if they dared.