Best language & age Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.”

Believe Age Language I Believe Ability Development Ability To See Categorization Conceptualization

Author:Chris Ware

“All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.”

Writing Age Young Lying Language Cases Forever Impossible Youth Tyranny Obedience Introducing Despotism Implicit

Book:The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays

Source: The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays

“Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader of this age.”

Kind Age Language Strong Sweet Reader Exciting Painful Available Contemporary Dramatic Persuasive

Author:Walter Wangerin

“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.”

Looks Said Important Shows Age Lasts Language Written Essence Prose Talk Shows

Author:Peter Brodie

“Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true heart language which we cannot choose but love? And what has been their reward? They have sent down their name to be the by-word of all after ages; the worst reproach of the worst men a name convertible with atheism and devil-worship.”

Men Heart Has Beens Age Spirit Names Language Poor Acting Atheism Worst Worship Devil Rewards Adore Peasants Reproach True Heart Devil Worship

Book:Fraser's Magazine

Source: Fraser's Magazine

“[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.”

Age School Language Educated Greek Meant To Be Leisure Our Words Unproductive

Book:Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New

Source: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New

“Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptions of its great minds; they are organs of the time; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts; but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society inspires.”

Source: Selections from the Works of Edward Everett: With a Sketch of His Life

“The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.”

Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

“The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.”

Doe Age Language Support Prose Verses

Author:Thomas Gray

“I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map.”

Writing Age Found Language Sky Forests Paradise Maps Apology Shelley Wordsworth

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it is atheistic in principle. It could have been the starting point for the atheistic movement in the modern age.”

“No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.”

Source: Literature and life, lects

“A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived, limited, and described. It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it; survives his age,--and perhaps, his country, his language.”

Men Country Character Facts Age Language Principles Rocks He Man Agency Phenomenon Progressive Possessed Solitary Providence Never Ending Great Character

Book:Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

“The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language.”

“New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.”

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.”

Long Matter Age Certain Language Loss Regret Bears Lovers Finals Witness Intricate

Author:Mary Ellen Chase

“The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.”

Trying Use Age Language Responsibility Creative Alive Function Primaries Tissues Use Of Language

Author:Jorie Graham

“Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can fully grasp its abstractedness, especially in the computer age, it becomes quite clear that no group can monopolize this abstraction, except through a series of swindle. If the usurers had been bolder, they might have monopolized language as well as currency, and people would be saying we can't write more books because we don't have enough words, the way they now say we can't build starships, because we don't have enough money.”

People Ifs Way Writing Wells Book Enough Might Would Be Age Language Clear Groups Paper Computer Series Abstract Currency Coins Abstraction Artifacts

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!”

Soul Moments Eye Running Age Asks Speak Language Sex Waiting Virtue Property Riches Lions Introduction Here And There Englishmen Roving

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.”

Writing Book Ideas Age Language Childhood Storytelling Fascinated Printed Printed Word

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.”

“Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.”

Age Language Natural Principles Middle Philosopher Logical Flaws Middle Ages Orderly Idiom

Author:Joshua Foer

“We are like dogs, cats, cows, rats ... What separates us from them and from the remaining matches against mammals is negligible. To have the same diseases. Rats spread plague like us, but we are just as contagious as them. And the dogs get diabetes, like we do, and get cancer, like us. And age, like us. And die, like us. Why then the biblical claim that man is the king of creation? Perhaps because only man has developed spoken language, the words, wherein lies its prodigious ability to lie.”

Men Age Lying Dies Language Ability Dog Creation Kings Disease Cat Claims Cancer Spread Cows Biblical Rats Plague Contagious Diabetes Mammals Prodigious Spoken Language

Author:Fernando Vallejo

“If two people can love each other without even speaking the same language, age and numbers are even easier to overcome.”

People Ifs Two Age Language Numbers Easier Overcoming Love Each Other Speaking The Same Language

Author:Jaejoong

“The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.”

Writing Firsts Important Age Today Time Language Important Things Lays Clean Bones

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.”

Life Writing Firsts Humans Moments Age Poetry Humanity Speak Language Subjects Poet Source Protect Elements Tragedy Ancient Illness Old Age Human Life Tragic

Author:Louise Bogan

“Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.”

“Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better thanthe metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.”

Ifs Men Said Age Lasts Language Generations Ordinary Stones Claims Philosophical Metaphysics Last Words Something Better Stone Age Acumen

Author:J. L. Austin

“It has nothing to do with age, it's not our languages, religion, gender, coulour of our skin; It's a soul within a well, that echoes deep beneath the ego's shell. True life can't ever start, until we offer up our heart.”

Wells Heart Soul Age Language Offers Ego Skins Gender Shells Echoes True Life

Author:Dawud Wharnsby Ali

“Once a century, all of a certain kind of bamboo flower on the same day. Whether they are in Malaysia or in a greenhouse in Minnesota makes no difference, nor does the age or size of the plant. They flower. Some current of an inner language passes between them, through space and separation, in ways we cannot explain in our language. They are all, somehow, one plant, each with a share of communal knowledge.”

Way Kind Doe Age Certain Language Differences Space Share Century Flower Plant Size Currents Separation Greenhouses Minnesota Malaysia Bamboo

Author:Linda Hogan

“I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production has been solved. This illusion, I suggested, is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which is has been erected. To use the language of the economist, it lives on irreplaceable capital which it cheerfully treats as income.”

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my parents worked. I obviously wanted to learn to play. And so she asked if she could teach me, and my mother said don't you think she's too young. My grandmother apparently said no. So I could read music before I could read, and I really don't remember learning to read music. So for me it's like a native language. When I look at a sheet of music, it just makes sense.”

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