David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… even feared : ‘We can form no wish, which has not a reference to society. A perfect solitude is, perhaps, the greatest punishment we can suffer’. (Hume, Treatise , 234) In that ‘positive cycle of sophistication of our tastes and learning’, …
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