Language Quote by Joseph Brodsky

“[T]here is some other way of understanding and getting along with the process of nature than by translating it into words. After all, the…

— Alan W. Watts

“There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.”

— Francis Bacon

“Now, in addition to these traits, he defaults to thinking that what he doesn’t see is not there, or what he does not understand…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“[T]hese instances are enough to show, that the body can by the sole laws of its nature do many things which the mind wonders…

— Baruch Spinoza

“The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their…

— Sigmund Freud

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

— Sigmund Freud

“But due to some strange lack of neural coordination between the faculties of thinking and speaking, or perhaps to the crucial lifeline that lucidity…

— María Dueñas

“[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original circumstances…

— Tom Holland

“After a great many questions I eventually ascertained that he is suffering from some kind of disorder of the mind. Is there anything more…

— Diane Setterfield

“neurosis as a problem of character and have seen that it can be approached in two ways: as a problem of too much narrowness…

— Ernest Becker

“How does the brain create meaning?”

— Michael Lewis

“[T]he thought was meaningless, an attempt to quantify direct experience.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin