A Random Post on silence.
The Silence that lives in Houses, Matisse (1947)
One should speak only when one may not remain silent; and then speak only of that which one has overcome—everything else is chatter, “literature,” lack of breeding. My writings speak only of my overcomings: “I” am in them, together with everything that was hostile to me, ego ipsissimus, indeed, even if a yet prouder expression be permitted, ego ipsissimum.
Nietzsche – Maxims & Opinions (1886)
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The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem. (Is not this the reason why those who have found after a long period of doubt that the meaning of life became clear to them have been unable to say what constituted that sense?) (6.521)
Whereof one can not speak, one must pass over in silence (7)
Wittgenstein – Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (1922)
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You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Kafka – Aphorisms (1918)
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Onionesque Reality 