From Richard Rorty: “The world does not speak. Only we do.”
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Quote of the day 09/01/25
From Haruki Murakami: “It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
Quote of the day 07/29/25
From John Donne: “All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated… As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, butContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/29/25”
Quote of the day 07/25/25
From John Donne: “To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.”
Quote of the day 07/18/25
From Basho: “Not knowing the name of the tree,I stood in the floodof its sweet scent.”
Quote of the day 07/08/25
From Alan Watts: “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
Quote of the day 07/01/25
From the Udanavarga: “The fool who is angered, and thinks to triumph by the use of abusive language, is always vanquished by him whose words are patient.”
Quote of the day 05/30/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Words are many and the thing is one, but somehow it has got to be portrayed or suggested in words, but as a unity, not after the post-mortem of thought, not after the dissection of the intellect.”
Quote of the day 03/15/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The paradox is itself an example of what it teaches. The meaning escapes the words. Very well then, instead of further and further explanations, floundering farther and farther from Reality, let us scorn truth, turn our backs on logic, defy consistency, – and behold, the intangible is grasped, the unsayable is said.”
Quote of the day 03/13/25
From R.H. Blyth: “A paradox is not a kind of pun, to be resolved by explaining the double meaning of the word. It does not spring from a desire to mystify the hearers or oneself. It arises from the inability of language to say two things at once “
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