"This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood."
More Absorbs Quotes
- American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. — Henry Adams
- A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening… — Agnes Repplier
- No canvas absorbs colour like memory. — Robert Aris Willmott
- Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for… — Walt Whitman
- I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it. — Jeremy Northam
- I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe