Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: language
Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel JohnsonTags: words language importance exaggeration
What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: truth language metaphor abstraction myths representation
But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.
Virginia WoolfWhen you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.
John O'DonohueTags: people language ancestors
What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.
G.K. ChestertonTags: religion language catholicism catholic heresy
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
Roland BarthesTags: literature language
Contrary to what phenomenology—which is always phenomenology of perception—has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.
Jacques DerridaTags: language phenomenology
Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing, but a compromise- that which is common to you, me, and everybody.
Thomas HulmeTags: language
To generalize is to be an idiot," said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities are the lenses with which our intellects have to manage.
C.S. LewisTags: language
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