Ebook: The World of Silence

In this work, renowned Swiss philosopher Max Picard eloquently expresses the virtues of silence. He speaks of the help and healing power of silence, of the power of unobtrusive things to make this broken world whole again — to invade the blatant world of noise and despair and bring it back to hope and love and faith. In a world without silence, Picard contends, man cannot be re-created, he can only develop. Moreover, he cannot find true happiness, for there is an immeasurability in happiness that can only dwell in the breadth of silence. Though it does not fit into the world of profit, utility, and exploitation, “there is more help and healing in silence,” says the author, “than in all the useful things. . .it strengthens the untouchable, it lessens the damage inflicted by exploitation. It makes things whole again.”

Since 1919, with the publication of his book 'The Last Man', Picard’s reputation has grown as that of a man whose life and thought are filled with continuity and faith, a poet who has used his poetic gifts to diagnose the causes of tragedy in the world today and to inspire hope.