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The seasons move in silence through the changing year. Spring does not come from winter; it comes from the silence from which winter came.

— Max Picard, The World of Silence  <link>

Today words no longer arise out of silence, through a creative act of the spirit which gives meaning to language and to the silence, but from other words, from the noise of other words. Neither do they return to the silence but into the noise of other words, to become immersed therein.

— Max Picard, The World of Silence  <link>

Man does not put silence to the test, silence puts man to the test.

— Max Picard, The World of Silence  <link>