Max Picard Professions : Writer Born : June 5, 1888 Died : October 3, 1965 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Max Picard Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence. Max Picard change loss philosophy Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the Max Picard silence animal moving Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came. Max Picard cities noise world Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time. Max Picard one-thing-at-a-time discipline meditation Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound Max Picard silence sound dream Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors