Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
To me it seems our duty towards the Bible is to obey its teaching in faith. I do not think we are… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which… — Stanley Forman Reed Copy Share Image
I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures. — Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists'… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs and pleadings… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
