Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.
Phillip E. JohnsonTags: science language naturalism modernity naturalism-as-science presuppositions theism
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
RumiTags: words soul language rumi turkey pretext inadequacy-of-words bond celaleddin inner mawlana mawlana-jalal-al-din-rumi mevlana structuralism türkiye
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
Edith WhartonTags: paradox music language understanding
The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.
Jean-Paul SartreEarlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.
Rebecca SolnitTags: imagination language street
Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.
Rebecca SolnitTags: language walking architecture cities possiblity
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
George Bernard ShawTags: language
The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon, and the observation of the phenomenon changes its nature.
Carlos FuentesTags: language symbol experiment phenomenon
Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.
Carlos FuentesTags: literature language
Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.
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