Cases Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it…

— Anonymous

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

— Johann Georg Hamann

Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

— Zhuangzi

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of…

— Christian Morgenstern

You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday…

— Paul Valery

Existence is beyond the power of words to define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute.

— Witter Bynner

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made…

— Gilles Deleuze

“The world is full of incomprehensible words”

— Haruki Murakami

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

— Hugh Prather

“Words are like physical objects around us that appear to be continuous and whole but are in fact composed of particles too small for…

— Christina Meldrum