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My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.
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David Bohm The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'. Maxim Gorky All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. Antonin Artaud The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. Thornton Wilder That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity. Hans Kung Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language. Hans Kung Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? Jackson Browne Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. Jimmy Breslin There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. Robert Rauschenberg Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results. Gordon Ramsay On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. Hu Shih After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country. Hu Shih In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. Hu Shih And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras. Thomas More The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said. Hans-Georg Gadamer Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. Elizabeth Bowen Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. Elizabeth Bowen The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it. Hans-Georg Gadamer Nothing exists except through language. Hans-Georg Gadamer With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will. Ernst Haas |
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