Philosophy Quote by Michael Finkel

“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.”

— William Deresiewicz

“Those who love seek a philosophy and, because of this, are fond of solitude.”

— Eiji Yoshikawa

“Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he can turn.”

— Toni Morrison

“We know that solitude is almost a necessity for creativity and the development of a genuinely and richly autonomous sense of identity.”

— Sara Maitland

“one could not attain greater personal excellence without also paving the way for everyone else in society to attain it as well.”

— Christopher Phillips

“Creativity flourishes in solitude.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Solitude and loneliness are two separate things. One you choose out of wisdom, the other out of necessity.” -Mark Miller”

— Mark Miller

“Solitude is our greatest teacher”

— Mimi Novic

“Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero…

— Mike Norton

“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.”

— Octavio Paz

“A new philosophy, a way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much…

— Rien Dijkstra

“Solitude produces originality, bold & astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd, and the forbidden.”

— Thomas Mann