The oldest, shortest words— “yes” and “no”— are those which require the most thought.
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Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
There’s the story of a person who does this, does that, but it isn’t I, I have nothing in common with him. He travels through countries I know no more about than if I had never been there. Sometimes, in my story, it happens that I pronounce these fine names you read in atlases, Aranjuez or Canterbury. New images are born in me, images such as people create from books who have never travelled. My words are dreams, that is all.
Therefore it has always been said that music is the language of feeling and of passion, as words are the language of reason.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…. Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.
That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.
This swarming of words behind words, thoughts behind thoughts – this universal substitution is also a kind of stability.