Appearance Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances…

— Mark Twain

Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

— Francine Prose

“Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.”

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others…

— John W. Dawson

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath israrely found.

— Alexander Pope

“In the beginning the word was with God; all explanations, physical and moral, rested on the divine. And now for storytellers, even though those…

— Jill Patton Walsh

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new…

— Willard Gaylin

In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few…

— Neal Stephenson

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

“Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was why we…

— Anonymous

“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.”

— Abhijit Naskar