From Gautama Buddha: “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”
Tag Archives: words
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 07/25/25
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 07/08/25
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 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 “
Quote of the day 02/09/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Man is born deaf, that is, not understanding the speech of others, so that he may follow his instincts and not be confused by words.”
Quote of the day 09/11/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”
Quote of the day 08/22/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
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