c’est la dissipation encore de notre langage. ... Dans le silence de la marche, quand on finit par perdre l’usage des mots ... dans ce silence, on écoute mieux alors, parce qu’on écoute enfin ce qui n’a aucune vocation à être retraduit, recodé, reformaté." - Meaning and context.">
But above all, silence is the dissipation of our language. ... In the silence of a walk, when you end up losing the use of words because by then you are doing nothing but walk, ... in that silence you hear better, because you are finally hearing what has no vocation to be retranslated, recoded, reformatted.
 • Chapter 8: Silence
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Mais surtout, c’est la dissipation encore de notre langage. ... Dans le silence de la marche, quand on finit par perdre l’usage des mots ... dans ce silence, on écoute mieux alors, parce qu’on écoute enfin ce qui n’a aucune vocation à être retraduit, recodé, reformaté.

— Frédéric Gros

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Mais surtout, c’est la dissipation encore de notre langage. ... Dans le silence de la marche, quand on finit par perdre l’usage des mots ... dans ce silence, on écoute mieux alors, parce qu’on écoute enfin ce qui n’a aucune vocation à être retraduit, recodé, reformaté." in the context of "But above all, silence is the dissipation of our language. ... In the silence of a walk, when you end up losing the use of words because by then you are doing nothing but walk, ... in that silence you hear better, because you are finally hearing what has no vocation to be retranslated, recoded, reformatted.
 • Chapter 8: Silence" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Source: Wikiquote: "Frédéric Gros" (Quotes, A Philosophy of Walking (2008):  Gros, Frédéric; Howe, John (trans.). 2014. A philosophy of walking. London; New York: Verso. ISBN 978-1-78168-270-8. (2014 English translation by John Howe, from the original 2008 French book)) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 19, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

About Frédéric Gros

Frédéric Gros (born 30 November 1965) is a French philosopher.