Language Quote by Aldous Huxley Download Open image “Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.” — Aldous Huxley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Mind Psychology Use Way
The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I think deep down, we always knew that words are magic and some words have more power than others. — Hank Green Copy Share Image
A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part… — Charles Kay Ogden Copy Share Image
Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
“Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day. With words one man can make another blessed,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Then what’s time for?” asked Lenina in some astonishment. Apparently, for going on walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
