"There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop."

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Source : Herbert Marcuse (2004). “The New Left and the 1960s: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse”, p.117, Routledge

Herbert Marcuse

#Space Quotes #Silence Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we donâ€™t want to.”
“My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.”
“The only person pressuring me is myself.”
“Our great whirling planet, our human individuality, were not given to us merely that we might exist for a time and then vanish into nothingness, but that we might question what it is all about. To live without understanding the purpose of life is foolish, a waste of time. The mystery of life surrounds us; we were given intelligence in order to solve it.”
“What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.”
“It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight.”
“My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.”
“Circles create soothing space...”

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