Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
Gilles DeleuzeTags: writing power-of-words maps
Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
Tom StoppardTags: power-of-words
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George OrwellTags: power-of-words language thought propaganda
When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream.
John LennonTags: power-of-words humour
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
Edward HopperTags: art power-of-words self-expression painting inadequacy-of-words
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Alan W. WattsTags: wisdom power-of-words civilization responsibility names culture
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
SocratesTags: wisdom power-of-words definitions power-of-thoughts rational-thought
When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?
Nicole KraussTags: power-of-words
Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.
Douglas AdamsTags: power-of-words psychology
I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
L.M. MontgomeryTags: power-of-words names labels
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