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“Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.”

Needs Doe Use Language Special Genius Tongue

“It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.”

Doe Body Speak Language Who You Are Your Body Vocabulary Grammar Learning Language

Author:Fred Frith

“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 full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one's own and one never does belong to two worlds at once.”

World May Doe Two Would Be Order Speak Language Remains Two Worlds Phenomenology

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word which either the barbarity or the narrowness of modern tongues cannot supply in more. ...But since every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to the narrow compass of his author's words; it is enough if he choose out some expression which does not vitiate the sense.”

“The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.”

Thinking Doe Book Language Difficult Obscure

Author:Bill Vaughan

“The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.”

Men World Giving Doe Artist Language Information He Man Awake Reasoning Faculty Conception Composer Magnetic

Book:The World as Will and Representation

Source: The World as Will and Representation

“Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.”

Doe Language Written Fossils

Author:Richard Brautigan

“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

“Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is like a dead language that no longer has anything in common with the language of the street. It is increasingly alien to our lives.”

Doe Culture Language Common Cases Our Lives Streets Fit Aliens Garments

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes "separation of good from evil;" it establishes unquestionable”

Doe Evil Language Decision Definitions Communicate Separation Command

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.”

Thinking Doe Would Be Values Language Decision Technology One Thing Bases Method Dependent Decision Making Excluded Good Place High Technology

Author:Ann Druyan

“New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some of them existing on different continents, some of them existing in different centuries, and many of them at war with one another. English is not the primary language in many of these villages, but the Roman alphabet does still have a slight edge.”

Way Doe Stills Different War Language Cities Century New York Edges Primaries Neighborhood Village Continents Alphabet

Book:What's So Funny?

Source: What's So Funny?

“Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as it seeks actualisation. Moreover, it does not obey the objective concepts of time and space that belong to the physical world. When the discussion of time and space is imported into linguistic art from scientific aims and research methods, that linguistic art is entirely reduced to trifling pseudo-philosophical issues.”

“A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.”

Thinking Doe Fall Language Good Work Traps Narrow-minded Nationalistic

Author:Gao Xingjian

“I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing tools than any other language, but the solution should have been to create and use a language that does not overload the whole goddamn human brain with irrelevant details.”

“What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?”

Want Should Firsts Mean Long Doe Helping Seems Care Able Desire Purpose Speak Language Term Ability Answers Principles Return Intention Long Term Chips Gratification Short Life Plain English

Author:Eric Liu

“Perhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand.”

Men Heart Doe Today Humanity Language Realizing Horror Empty Awake Solitary Echoes Absurdity Boundless Solitary Man

Author:Arthur Adamov

“Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.”

Men Doe Fall Games Language Nations Social Fit Determine Belonging Arrangements Entering Social Life Impervious

Author:Alain Finkielkraut

“A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril.”

Should Doe Use Language Term Currents Chinese Greek Territory Scholar Venture Propositions Peril Alphabet Uncharted Treading Uncharted Territory Chinese Language

Author:Eric A. Havelock

“The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote a great and beautiful novel which mainly involved shallow people going to parties in a rich guy's house. By contrast, all sorts of terrible books are published every month about men slaughtering people for no reason - a serious matter which, in itself, does not make the author worthy of serious consideration.”

“If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more of what it does, that's an endorsement.”

Ifs Want Doe Book Language Condemnation Endorsements

Book:The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008

Source: The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008

“Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes, so does our theology change, particularly if we are trying to manipulate language for a specific purpose. That is what is happening with our attempts at inclusive language, which thus far have been inconclusive and unsuccessful.”

Ifs Needs Trying Doe Has Beens Purpose Dies Language Happenings Theology Latin Manipulate Unsuccessful

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is like saying language is elitist and irrelevant.”

Ifs Children Doe Ideas Language Lucky Manners Irrelevant Etiquette Hypocritical Elitist

Author:Judith Martin

“I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.”

Knows Mean Persons Doe Courses Language Backgrounds Supposed To Be Love Someone Worldview Informing Foreground

Author:Aaron Belz

“Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.”

Doe Philosophy Language Understanding Style Punctuation Good Understanding

Author:George Sand

“To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope with my own poems that the reader feels a connection, soul to soul, that'll help us all feel a little less alone on the planet. And it does have the power to direct change. A writer can make the word 'dark' be something positive. You can relieve a word like 'hysterical' of its misogynistic implications. You can make the language your own. That's what poetry is about.”

Feels Littles Persons Doe Soul Helping Language Dark My Own Planets Reader Direct Connections Poetry Is Implications Whispering Hysterical

Author:Rita Dove

“[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.”

Doe States Three Language Nations Sound Simple United United States Exercise Married Appreciate Mary Merry Vowels Elocution

Author:Jessica Mitford

“One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it is written. Secondly, it must say something significant about a reality common to us all, but perceived from a unique perspective. What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.”

Wells Doe Made Said Two Reality Language Common Written Objects Poet Perspective Reader Honor Demand Unique Significant Two Things Validity Poetry By Famous Poets Unique Perspective

Author:W. H. Auden

“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.”

Doe Artist Language Structure Profound Complexes Accepted Symbols Code Evident

Author:Kenneth Coutts-Smith

“problematic within post-Reformation dogmatics. Is faith something I `do' to earn God's favour, and, if not, what role does it play? Once we release Paul's justification-language from the burden of having to describe `how someone becomes a Christian', however, this is simply no longer a problem. There is no danger of imagining that Christian faith is after all a surrogate `work', let alone a substitute form of moral righteousness. Faith is the badge of covenant membership, not something someone `performs' as a kind of initiation test.”

“True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.”

Ifs Doe Light Language Pure Originals Shining Mediums Obscure Translations Transparent

Author:Walter Benjamin

“Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.”

Doe Language Speech Progressive Fascism Fascists Reactionaries

Author:Roland Barthes

“Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the extent of the negation of man's corporeal self that mathematics achieves cannot be compared with anything. Whoever is interested in this subject I refer to my articles. Here I will say only that the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be discovered, never invented.”

Men World Way Humans Doe Self Language Sleep Achieve Subjects Fields Degrees Mathematics Patterns Articles Endeavour Utterance Negation Inception Human Language

Book:His Master's Voice

Source: His Master's Voice

“... we should not be disappointed that everyday language does not work any longer at the apex of our little theory. It is natural; like poetry, the very reason for the existence of mathematics is that it expresses thoughts and feelings which we cannot express in mundane everyday language.”

Should Littles Doe Reason Feelings Language Natural Existence Theory Mathematics Everyday Disappointed Mundane Thoughts And Feelings Apex

Author:Alexandre Borovik

“Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.”

Wells Doe Book Language Movement

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.”

People Should Mean Doe Helping Culture Language Loses Dominant Other Cultures Dominant Culture

Author:Edward T. Hall

“I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.”

Thinking Persons Doe Art Language Concepts Math Programming Great Art Better Person Foreign Language Learning Math

Author:Jack Dorsey

“The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.”

Doe Language Force Rejecting Swallowing

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.”

Doe Use Language My Own Negative Curse Delicate

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.”

Doe Language Limits Ambiguity

Author:Mason Cooley

“I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.”

Want Doe Language Style Mines Masters

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.”

World Way Doe Used Language Perception Concerned Relation Property Phenomenal Corresponding

Book:Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka

Source: Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka

“The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented as a sequence of propositions. Meaning is distorted when a word or sentence is, as we say, taken out of context; when a reader or listener is deprived of what was said before, and after. But there is no such thing as a photograph taken out of context, for a photograph does not require one. In fact, the point of photography is to isolate images from context, so as to make them visible in a different way.”

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.”

Littles Doe Asks House Speak Language Cities Streets Periods Towns Ancient Various Chemistry Squares Uniforms Multitudes Suburbs Symbolism Mazes Calculus Old And New

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death's-head formation in readiness, for the present only in the East, with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

“Our goal as a parent is to give life to our children's learning--to instruct, to teach, to help them develop self-discipline--an ordering of the self from the inside, not imposition from the outside. Any technique that does not give life to a child's learning and leave a child's dignity intact cannot be called discipline--it is punishment, no matter what language it is clothed in.”

Giving Children Doe Self Matter Helping Language Parent Goal Teach Discipline Dignity Our Children No Matter What Technique Punishment Self Discipline Imposition

Author:Barbara Coloroso

“All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error.”

“I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.”

Thinking Doe Language Ego Disappear Mystical Mystical Experiences

Author:W. H. Auden

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