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“Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.”

Doe Body Moving Language Greater Feet Intellect Speed Ease Wheels Involvement

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“The Constitution gives us a standard to follow. We cannot define impeachable offenses to a greater degree than the language of the Constitution. But we all agree the issue is the public trust. Our duty is not to punish anyone. And our challenge is to avoid pettiness.”

Giving Language Challenges Issues Greater Duty Degrees Standards Constitution Agree Offense Pettiness Public Trust

Author:Asa Hutchinson

“Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced.”

May Language Simple Greater Effects Symbols

Book:Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative

Source: Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative

“We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.”

Men Way Wells Language Numbers Attention Greater Wise Fashion He Man Ought Draws Dresses Every Man Manners Behave Shock Affected Excess Conform Haste

Author:Moliere

“Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.”

Language Greater Magic Transformation Method Mediums Phenomenon Ritual Symbolic Parcel

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Language Greater Scholar English Language Englishmen Transmit Handicaps Reformers Rams

Book:Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

“But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.”

“The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.”

Ifs Ideas Problem Order Language Greater Very Good Dimensions Our Thoughts Superficial Obliged Absent Etiquette Accuracy Distinctive Articulation Timbre

Author:Alain de Botton