"What now on the other hand makes..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.
More by Arthur Schopenhauer
“I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.”
“No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.”
“To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.”
More on Solitude
“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.”
“Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.”
“The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.”
More on Society
“An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.”
“A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
“A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.”