Tags: language expression thought
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.
Siri HustvedtTags: language
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
Ludwig WittgensteinTags: philosophy language
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.
John DeweyTags: words language definitions vocabulary
A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.
Henry HazlittTags: words power-of-words language vocabulary
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
Jasper FfordeTags: language
Language is a piss poor attempt at telepathy is what it is. We try to put our thoughts into each other's heads through language...But half the intended meaning gets lost in the transmission, and the other half is filtered through existing assumptions. Everything is a half truth!
That's the whole problem! You can't understand me through the smog of your presumptions and prejudices. Multiply that six billion times and you'll begin to understand the desperation of our global situation
Tags: language
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
Gaston BachelardTags: words writing nature dreams language phenomenology
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
D.H. LawrenceTags: shakespeare literature language
that your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result)
Tags: poetry power language speech bukowski command war-all-the-time
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