Language Quote by W. H. Auden Download Open image ““when the ego disappears, so does power over language.”” — W. H. Auden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Power
“As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Egoism is harmful, the moment one realizes that then everything will become straightforward. The ego is not worth protecting.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“But in the end, attacking the ego is just a subtle disguise for attacking yourself. Destroying the ego would serve no purpose even if… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“What will the ego not do? It is the ego that has given rise to all this. And when the ego leaves, there is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of egoism? It spends away everything in its power!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know it's real,… — Kamal Ravikant Copy Share Image
“Ego takes everything personally. Emotion arises, defensiveness, perhaps even aggression.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
