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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir, I am your most humble servant." You are not his most humble servant. You may say, "These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times." You don't mind the times ... You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society; but don't think foolishly.

Samuel Johnson

Stichwörter: excess language appropriateness cant expression moderation thought

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.

John Steinbeck

Stichwörter: choice freedom language freedom-of-choice hebrew timshel

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

Dennis Potter

Stichwörter: language

The menu is not the meal.

Alan W. Watts

Stichwörter: words philosophy power-of-words language metaphysics names nominalism

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Marcel Duchamp

Stichwörter: life society god religion atheism language chess

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Gustave Flaubert

Stichwörter: language abstraction

Know what you are talking about.

Pope John Paul II

Stichwörter: knowledge language

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

Douglas Adams

Stichwörter: power-of-words language