What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.
Jacques DerridaTags: truth writing censorship language speech
We sit and talk,
quietly, with long lapses of silence
and I am aware of the stream
that has no language, coursing
beneath the quiet heaven of
your eyes
which has no speech
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 JohnsonTags: 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 SteinbeckTags: choice freedom language freedom-of-choice hebrew timshel
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
Dennis PotterTags: language
The menu is not the meal.
Alan W. WattsTags: 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 DuchampTags: 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 FlaubertTags: language abstraction
Know what you are talking about.
Pope John Paul IIMeanwhile, 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 AdamsTags: power-of-words language
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