“The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.”
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Walter Elliot2
American priest 1842–1928Related quotes
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist
Source: What is Property? (1840), Ch.V
Ulf Ekman (1950) Swedish chaplain
- Twitter response by Ulf Ekman @ulfekman to Anthony Baratta http://twitter.com/ulfekman/status/444114945392005120 @AnthonyBaratta_ on 13 March 2014.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
Vol. II, p. 30
1980s, Letters to the Schools (1981, 1985)
Context: Attention involves seeing and hearing. We hear not only with our ears but also we are sensitive to the tones, the voice, to the implication of words, to hear without interference, to capture instantly the depth of a sound. Sound plays an extraordinary part in our lives: the sound of thunder, a flute playing in the distance, the unheard sound of the universe; the sound of silence, the sound of one’s own heart beating; the sound of a bird and the noise of a man walking on the pavement; the waterfall. The universe is filled with sound. This sound has its own silence; all living things are involved in this sound of silence. To be attentive is to hear this silence and move with it.
“Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.”
Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress