top of page
.png){kind=small}
"No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it."
Standard
Customized
More
"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
Author Name
Personal Development
"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious."
Psychology
"One never knows how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is the very least question of definitions."
Ethics
"The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason."
Education
"I think that's shameful, even if it's just a story, to propose an afterlife for evil... Any afterlife notion is a manipulation and a sop. It's shameful the way the unionists and the pagans both keep talking up hell for intimidation and the airy Other Land for reward."
Ethics
"Children played at those stories, they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them."
Childhood
"Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history."
History
"To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward."
Education
"Oh, mercy, there is nothing monstrously ugly about you. Ruth may be unpleasing, but you are merely plain. If anything, it's my beauty that's monstrous, for it sweeps away any other aspect of my character."
Identity
"Night-time is being brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away."
Time
"Immortality is a chancy thing, it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is."
Philosophy
bottom of page