A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.
I have a room whereinto no one enters Save I myself alone: There sits a blessed memory on a throne, There my life centres.
There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?
Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God
When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.
When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.
Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?
Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time.
