Best essence & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning

“What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.”

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Author:Peter Brodie

“Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of "truth" and the language of "creation."”

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Author:Paul Valery

“Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.”

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Author:Diane Wakoski

“When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask oneself: is the word ever actually used in this way in the language-game which is its original home?--What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.”

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Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

“I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know how to play a more sophisticated role than the one that I have played for quite a few years, and that is spending a lot of time with these hard-working scientists in the various fields of expertise that relate to the climate crisis, learning as fully as I can the truths they are discovering, asking them to explain it in language that's simple enough for me to understand and then use that language to convey the essence of it, and then letting the chips fall where they may.”

“It's not an easy option. The essence of travel is letting go of habit and prejudice and relishing the unfamiliar. Food you've never eaten before, a language you've never spoken before, religion that mystifies, customs that confuse, politics that perplex, all question everyday assumptions about how you live your life.”

Language Easy Habit Letting Go Essence Prejudice Everyday Assumption Customs Live Your Life Unfamiliar

Author:Michael Palin

“Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come.”

Giving May Real Character Spiritual Form Language Prayer Lord Essence Breathe Holiness Spiritual Life Woe Foe Lungs Shrinks Real Character

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.”

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Author:Talib Kweli

“In Eden I "saw" that Adam or Eve probably spoke each word FOR THE FIRST TIME and that seemed wild and seemed to me that that might have brought them to some essence of language. Once I "saw" the city, I knew it was real. once I saw that a poem was a house, i knew it was real and could go back to it or else write a flurry of poems around it, both worked.”

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Author:Gregory Orr

“If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.”

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Author:Rita Dove

“The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols; so that it is wrong to say that a good language is important to good thought, merely; for it is the essence of it.”

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Book:The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings

Source: The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings

“The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges the gross elements of matter - a spark of celestial fire, by which life is kindled and preserved, and which, if even the instruments it employs are indestructible in their essence, must itself, of necessity, be immortal.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)

Source: The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)

“Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.”

Humans Real Soul Language Essence Symbols Echoes Human Soul

Book:Symbols of transformation

Source: Symbols of transformation

“On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden entrance into collar and shopping bag. The quiet rain that can rust a tin roof without the tin roof making a sound in protest. The shamanic rain that feeds the imagination. The rain that seems actually a secret language, whispering, like the ecstasy of primitives, of the essence of things.”

Knows Seems Fall Language Sound Imagination Secret Quiet Rain Essence Bags Protest Gray Ecstasy Shopping Roof Persistent Whispering Entrances Collars Rust Seattle Tin Toadstools

Author:Tom Robbins

“One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of the mind is conducted. If one failed to take that into account, then one would be left studying only the language in which mathematics is represented rather than the essence of mathematics.”

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Author:L. E. J. Brouwer

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