Capacity Quote by Thomas de Quincey

Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end.

— Swami Vivekananda

He who understands humanity seeks solitude

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby…

— Jack Kerouac

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for…

— Guy de Maupassant

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

— Octavio Paz

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom;…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in…

— Erich Fromm