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 …

- Max Picard

Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

- Max Picard

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 o…

- Max Picard

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

- Max Picard

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

- Max Picard