I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.
Jack GilbertWhy covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: education knowledge poetry language
the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,—universal signs, instead of these village symbols,—and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: religion language mysticism symbol
Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in life has meaning. Reality is subjective. Values and truths are subjective. Life itself is a kind of illusion. Blah, blah, blah, let's have another scotch.
Dean KoontzTags: truth reality literature language values scotch
The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.
G.K. ChestertonTags: humor humanity humour language seriousness
Words are such fun!
Susan MeddaughTags: language
Having words opened up a world of possibilities for Martha.
Susan MeddaughTags: language
[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
AristophanesTags: nature language selfishness character government greed administration voice politicians attributes marketplace barter human-voice demagoguery
They say that maths is a language. So how do I order a pizza with extra cheese in maths?
Greg CurtisAs soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.
Marcel DuchampTags: language understanding misunderstanding
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