"I am glad that you approve and applaud my design of withdrawing myself from all tumult and business of the world..."

"... solitude can be well fitted and set right but upon a very few persons."

"Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the poise of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals."

Le cinéma, la radio, la danse, tous ces nouveaux moyens de mécanisation de l’humanité, exercent un pouvoir énorme qui ne peut être dépassé.

" I fear we are most of us like Mrs. Poyser's bantam cock, who fancied the sun got up every morning to hear him crow."

"Sport presents three main elements: the spectacle, the competition, and the personalities of the gladiators."

Botticelli - The birth of Venus, detail (1485) Extracts from : Walter Odajnyk Archetype and Character Power, Eros, Spirit, and Matter...

"Although in the popular imagination Eros is seen in personal and human terms as love, it is primarily an abstract and cosmic principle."

"Pouvoirs nouveaux, gênes nouvelles, le monde n’a jamais moins su où il allait."

"The final aim of Zen is the experience of enlightenment, called satori."

"The writer Thomas Berry says that it's all a question of story. The story is the plot we assign to life and the universe..."

"There is a power in loneliness, a purity, self-immersion, and depth which is unlike any other experience."

"MY LIFE, more than that of anyone I know, has been spent in solitude and wandering. Why this is true, or how it happened, I cannot say."

"There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves."

"There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves."

"Our era of technology has not emphasized reading and study as virtues."

"Paul parle d’être un "aphôrismenos", c’est-à-dire ici un "mis à part", eh bien j’en ai été un dès ma plus tendre enfance."

"The mystes, who is “he who closes the eyes”, was considered as reborn, and became epoptes —“he who sees”. "

"One of the generalities most often noted about Americans is that we are a restless, a dissatisfied, a searching people."

"It may well be an error to think that he who give voice to the multitude’s sorrow must himself always be victim to great personal despair."

"’Tis a presumption of great danger and consequence, besides the absurd temerity it draws after it, to contemn what we do not comprehend."

"The individuation process, as a universal law of life, exhibits an archetypal pattern which remains more or less constant and regular."

"Privacy and inwardness are perhaps the strongest means of individualization."

Amidst this gray, dreary anonymity we know that we live in a world from which all the gracious marks of "presence" have been banished."