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61 " Thoreau establishes early in Walden: “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. "
― Cal Newport , Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
62 " something more fundamental to human flourishing: the sense of meaning that comes from acting with intention. "
63 " Solitude requires you to move past reacting to information created by other people and focus instead on your own thoughts and experiences—wherever you happen to "
64 " And it seemed at that moment that I could hear an inner voice saying to me, “Martin Luther, stand up for righteousness. Stand up for justice. Stand up for truth. "
65 " Anthony Storr helped correct this omission with his seminal book, Solitude: A Return to the Self. "
66 " All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” Blaise Pascal "
67 " what you need instead is a full-fledged philosophy of technology use, rooted in your deep values, that provides clear answers to the questions of what tools you should use and how you should use them and, equally important, enables you to confidently ignore everything else. "
68 " I get an extra 20 IQ points from being in that office, "
69 " running is cheaper than therapy. "
70 " Solitude requires you to move past reacting to information created by other people and focus instead on your own thoughts and experiences—wherever you happen to be. "
71 " Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. "
72 " Is Silicon Valley programming apps or are they programming people?” Cooper asks. “They are programming people, "
73 " In July, Thoreau moved into the cabin where he then lived for the next two years. In the book Walden, he wrote about this experience, famously describing his motivation as follows: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. "
74 " The average Facebook user, by contrast, spends around 350 minutes per week on this company’s services "
75 " The constant exposure to their friends’ carefully curated portrayals of their lives generates feelings of inadequacy—especially during periods when they’re already feeling low—and for teenagers, it provides a cruelly effective way to be publicly excluded. "
76 " Kethledge, it turned out, relies on long periods alone with his thoughts to write his famously sharp legal opinions, often working at a simple pine desk in a barely renovated barn with no internet connection. "
77 " All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” Blaise Pascal famously wrote in the late seventeenth century. "
78 " three crucial benefits provided by solitude: “new ideas; an understanding of the self; and closeness to others. "
79 " for the first time in human history solitude is starting to fade away altogether. "
80 " Inspired by these meetings, Franklin created a scheme in which the Junto members would contribute funds toward buying books that all members could use. This model soon grew beyond Franklin’s Friday evening gatherings, leading him in 1731 to write the charter for the Library Company of Philadelphia, one of the first subscription libraries in America. "