The Silence of Max Picard

High above Lugano, in a village of the Ticino, lives a little old wise man, Max Picard. Like the sage in every era, he has withdrawn himself, so far as possible, from the vanities and diversions of his time. He is a hard hater of noise and an ardent lover of silence: they never will love where they ought to love, says Burke, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

Kirk