Max Picard Quotes

• Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

  Max Picard

  Change, Philosophy, Loss

  Max Picard (1952). “The World of Silence”

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• Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the
  silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of
  silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled
  with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence.
  The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great
  and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize.
  Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something
  created for its own sake.

  Max Picard

  Moving, Animal, Silence

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• Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

  Max Picard

  Discipline, Meditation, One Thing At A Time

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• Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came.

  Max Picard

  Cities, World, Noise

  Max Picard (1952). “The World of Silence”

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• Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

  Max Picard

  Dream, Silence, Sound

  Max Picard (1963). “Man and Language”

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