"If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian [[Edward Gibbon]] put it, then **the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot**." ([Location 2305](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07QY3CZ9L&location=2305)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[mindfulness]], [[essentialism]], [[not-speaking]] **Source** -- [[202409180133 - B - Stillness is the Key]]