"A man thinking or working is always..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
More by George Bernard Shaw
“A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.”
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.”
“[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.”
More on Solitude
“Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness”
“The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.”
“I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy. The miracle of not having to talk about oneself.”
More on Thinking
“You should never think without an image.”
“If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid”
“Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.”