Silence is better than unmeaning words.
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Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
And, as a general rule, it is more advisable to show your intelligence by saying nothing than by speaking out; for silence is a matter of prudence whilst speech has something in it of vanity.
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.
Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence… someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth – in other words, to silence.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
