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Even silence becomes whether we want it or not a statement that is in fact astoundingly presumptuous

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Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

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The self knowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.

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How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.

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The renunciation of recognition will never become possible without a certitude that our life is directed by a suprahuman authority.

I'm not Stiller (1955)

It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.

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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox New Thought Pastels (1913)

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.

Benedict of Nursia

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Federico Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003)

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