#2,790

The only pellucid dialogue is one between two recluses.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447

#2,613

The common man lives among phantasms; only the recluse moves among realities.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 422

#2,610

“To belong to a generation,” rather than a necessity, is a decision made by gregarious minds.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 422

#2,586

Solitude teaches us to be more intellectually honest, but it induces us to be less intellectually courteous.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 418

#2,569

An outlandish idea becomes ridiculous when several people share it.
Either one walks with everybody, or one walks alone.
One should never walk in a group.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 412

#2,566

In solitude man recovers strength to live.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 412

#2,514

The most dispiriting [kind of] solitude is not one lacking in neighbors, but one deserted by God.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 404

#2,411

In groups of humans, only the defects of those who join the group get added up.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 389

#2,400

What cloisters us gives us the chance to ennoble ourselves.
Even when it is a simple rain shower.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 387

#2,395

Intelligence isolates; stupidity brings together.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 387

#2,291

A man does not communicate with another man except when the one writes in his solitude and the other reads him in his own.
Conversations are either a diversion, a swindle, or a fencing match.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 372

#2,214

Solitude is so frightening nowadays that everyone prefers the heat of battle.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 360

#2,213

To be a Christian is to not be alone, no matter the solitude that surrounds us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 360

#2,167

The lucidity of certain moments is accompanied at times by the sensation of keeping watch alone in a sleeping city.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 353

#2,162

When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 352

#1,802

The soul is a quantity which decreases as more individuals come together.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 297

#1,310

The recluse is humanity’s delegate to what is important.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 226

#1,196

Boredom is the antonym of solitude.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 209

#991

Modern man has imprisoned himself in his autonomy, deaf to the mysterious sound of the surge that beats against our solitude.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 178

#827

As the waters of this century rise, delicate and noble sentiments, sensuous and fine tastes, discreet and profound ideas take refuge in a few solitary souls, like the survivors of the flood on some silent mountain peaks.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 151