Language and The Religion of Solitude

David Price
4 min readMay 19, 2024
Maxfield Parrish

To me one of the hardest things about writing is overcoming the formal style I learnt at University.

— Jon Wilson

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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

— Aldous Huxley

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Quantum physics says that as you go deeper and deeper into the workings of the atom, you see that there is nothing there — just energy waves. It says an atom is actually an invisible force field, a kind of miniature tornado, which emits waves of electrical energy.

— Greg Braden, Bruce Lipton

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My Grandfather Max Born*… said: ‘The belief that there is only one truth and that one’s self is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil in the world.’

— Olivia Newton-John

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When I started university I planned to study English literature, but I impulsively changed to studio art after one year. I had friends who went on to earn doctorates in philosophy and psychology…

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David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.