Equal Quote by Hannah Arendt Download Open image “Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.” — Hannah Arendt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Equal Given Language Senses Use
I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered. — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
“If what we say is nothing more than posturing and pontificating, that will create an emptiness so full of ‘nothing’ that our words will… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
All that is not thought is pure nothingness; since we can think only thoughts, and all the words we use to speak of things… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
There is no good reason to suppose that whatever can be felt can be expressed in words, or indeed in any articulate form. — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which… — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without… — Henry Reed Copy Share Image
“It means, first, that everything that appears in public can be seen and heard by everybody and has the widest possible publicity. For us,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between nation and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
For many, the call to be a Christian can seem demanding, even overwhelming. But we need not be afraid or feel inadequate. The Savior… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image