Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.
There's a lot to be said for misanthropy.
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!
Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.