T Quotes
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“The language of art is a 'parabolic' language, with a special openness to the universal: the 'Way of Beauty' is a way capable of leading the mind and heart to the Lord, to elevate them to the heights of God.”
“The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.”
“The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here was the modern human mind at work, spinning symbolism and abstraction in a way that only Homo sapiens is capable of doing.”
Source: The Origin Of Humankind
“The language of Cat's generation was far harder than that of her own, and more pithily correct: in their terms, he was a hunk. But why, she wondered, should anybody actually want a hunk, when non-hunks were so much more interesting?”
Source: The Sunday Philosophy Club
“The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology.”
“The language of Christianity is the language of substitution. It is not primarily the language of morals. God is not presented as a mother saying “eat all your vegetables”. Instead, Christianity is about a one-sided rescue, that we didn’t want and certainly didn’t deserve, and he did it anyway.”
“The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the process of making a film can start to redress this balance and venture into uncharted territory. This is not just about unsung identities but about the subtleties and nuances of contemplation, the drifting spaces in which the worlds of the very small and the very large collide. Camerawork is a part of that.”
“The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral pleasures. It weighs the obvious against what in its terms are incomprehensible. When I drive from here to there, speed, privacy, control, and safety are easy to claim. When I walk, what happens is more vague, more ambiguous-and in many circumstances much richer. I am out in the world. It's exercise, though not so quantifiably as on a treadmill in a gym with a digital readout.”
“The language of digital communication is a language we don't understand in a way. People say the internet is like the Wild West in that it's lawless and we haven't worked out how to make it structured or moral.”
“The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish, unordinary, even in the intimate pages of their diaries, and the regime of instruction was severe and practical.”
“The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.”
Source: Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture
“The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It’s more experimental than classical.”
“The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.”
“The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”
Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.”
“The language of God is Mystery.”
“The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.”
“The language of Heaven is clear to those who read the Word and pray.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“The language of images [of inner-oriented artists] does not follow a code structure that is evident and widely accepted, but is more likely to be a complex of symbols that have a profound meaning for the artists themselves.”
“The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.”
“The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.”
“The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.”
Source: News from the World: Stories and Essays
“The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“The language of light can only be decoded by the heart. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.”
Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses
“The language of loss and the language of hope may, at times, come into conflict as we face end-of-life issues.”
Source: Thoughts from the Bedside: From Medicine to Chaplaincy and Beyond
“The language of love is the language of humility or humbleness.”
“The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.”
“The language of love requires no translation,
The language of trust needs no explanation,
The language of honesty needs no interpretation,
The language of wisdom requires no noise,
The language of kindness requires no words.”
“The language of mathematics, scientific observations, and our perceptivity together knit the window to reality.”
Source: Physical Laws of the Mathematical Universe: Who Are We?
“The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.”
“The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.”
“The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.”
“The language of my books has shaped me as a man.”
Source: Mao II: A Novel
“The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.”
“The language of nature is silence.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“The language of North Korea is always bombastic. But what has really changed is the acceleration of their nuclear program, the likelihood that they have more and more weapons, and the acceleration of the testing of ballistic missiles in very, very aggressive ways towards Japan.”
“The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly.”
“The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.”
“The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.”
“The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.”
“The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.”
“The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.”
“The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.”
“The language of religion holds the most currency for the masses.”
“The language of roses shifts under our feet. It blows in and out like the wind. It carries the fragrance of the flower and then it is gone...It is how we learn to speak about something that is disappearing as we say its name.”
Source: The Lost Garden
“The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.”
“The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail but for the whole community of Chapel Isle. Block manages to hold sass and heartfelt emotion in perfect equilibrium.”
“The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.”
Source: Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry